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. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W25-8.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gki491.

SOAP-based services provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute

S Pillai  1 , V Silventoinen, K Kallio, M Senger, S Sobhany, J Tate, S Velankar, A Golovin, K Henrick, P Rice, P Stoehr, R Lopez
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SOAP-based services provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute

S Pillai et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) (http://www.w3.org/TR/soap) based Web Services technology (http://www.w3.org/ws) has gained much attention as an open standard enabling interoperability among applications across heterogeneous architectures and different networks. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is using this technology to provide robust data retrieval and data analysis mechanisms to the scientific community and to enhance utilization of the biological resources it already provides [N. Harte, V. Silventoinen, E. Quevillon, S. Robinson, K. Kallio, X. Fustero, P. Patel, P. Jokinen and R. Lopez (2004) Nucleic Acids Res., 32, 3-9]. These services are available free to all users from http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices.

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Figure 1
A sample Perl client calling the fetchData method.
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Figure 2
A sample client invocation showing the method called and result obtained.
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Figure 3
A sample Perl client for WSFasta calling the doFasta method asynchronously.
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Figure 4
A sample client invocation. Note that ‘\’ means a continuous one-line command. The input file (e.g. mysequence) is a Fasta-formatted sequence.
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