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Review
. 2005 Jun 15;10(12):865-71.
doi: 10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03481-1.

Web services in the life sciences

Vasa Curcin  1 , Moustafa Ghanem, Yike Guo
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Review

Web services in the life sciences

Vasa Curcin et al. Drug Discov Today. .

Abstract

Web services provide a standard way of publishing applications and data sources over the internet, enabling mass dissemination of knowledge. In the life sciences, the web-service approach is seen as being a road to standardizing the multitude of tools available from different providers. In this article, we present an overview of the technology (focusing on life-science applications), we list the currently available service providers and we discuss advanced issues raised by the concept.

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FIGURE 1
Mapping a list of accession numbers to KEGG pathways in InforSense service-composition software. Accession numbers are sent through the SRS web service to retrieve EMBL annotations that are then passed on to several KEGG web services.
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FIGURE 2
Overview of service-oriented architecture. (i) The service provider registers with the registry. (ii) The consumer requests the service from the registry. (iii) The consumer contacts the provider.
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