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. 2009 Jul;37(Web Server issue):W11-6.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp300. Epub 2009 May 5.

Web API for biology with a workflow navigation system

Yeondae Kwon  1 , Yasumasa Shigemoto, Yoshikazu Kuwana, Hideaki Sugawara
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Web API for biology with a workflow navigation system

Yeondae Kwon et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) provides Web-based systems for biological analysis, called Web APIs for biology (WABI). So far, we have developed over 20 SOAP services and several workflows that consist of a series of method invocations. In this article, we present newly developed services of WABI, that is, REST-based Web services, additional workflows and a workflow navigation system. Each Web service and workflow can be used as a complete service or a building block for programmers to construct more complex information processing systems. The workflow navigation system aims to help non-programming biologists perform analysis tasks by providing next applicable services on Web browsers according to the output of a previously selected service. With this function, users can apply multiple services consecutively only by following links without any programming or manual copy-and-paste operations on Web browsers. The listed services are determined automatically by the system referring to the dictionaries of service categories, the input/output types of services and HTML tags. WABI and the workflow navigation system are freely accessible at http://www.xml.nig.ac.jp/index.html and http://cyclamen.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/, respectively.

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Figure 1.
SNP workflow.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
UML notation of the homology workflow.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Architecture of the workflow navigation system.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Example of the workflow navigation system that retrieves a DDBJ entry and executes BLAST search.
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