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. 2010 Jul;38(Web Server issue):W671-6.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq497. Epub 2010 Jun 4.

MOWServ: a web client for integration of bioinformatic resources

Sergio Ramírez  1 , Antonio Muñoz-Mérida, Johan Karlsson, Maximiliano García, Antonio J Pérez-Pulido, M Gonzalo Claros, Oswaldo Trelles
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MOWServ: a web client for integration of bioinformatic resources

Sergio Ramírez et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

The productivity of any scientist is affected by cumbersome, tedious and time-consuming tasks that try to make the heterogeneous web services compatible so that they can be useful in their research. MOWServ, the bioinformatic platform offered by the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics, was released to provide integrated access to databases and analytical tools. Since its release, the number of available services has grown dramatically, and it has become one of the main contributors of registered services in the EMBRACE Biocatalogue. The ontology that enables most of the web-service compatibility has been curated, improved and extended. The service discovery has been greatly enhanced by Magallanes software and biodataSF. User data are securely stored on the main server by an authentication protocol that enables the monitoring of current or already-finished user's tasks, as well as the pipelining of successive data processing services. The BioMoby standard has been greatly extended with the new features included in the MOWServ, such as management of additional information (metadata such as extended descriptions, keywords and datafile examples), a qualified registry, error handling, asynchronous services and service replication. All of them have increased the MOWServ service quality, usability and robustness. MOWServ is available at http://www.inab.org/MOWServ/ and has a mirror at http://www.bitlab-es.com/MOWServ/.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Pipeline main steps for a phylogenetic study using web services in MOWServ. (A) Search in Magallanes for a keyword in order to locate the appropriate data type. (B) Detection of a desirable data type, highlighting the keyword matches. (C) Web interface to compose the object corresponding to the selected data type. (D) Monitoring executions by means of the ‘User tasks’ tab, where service Blastp is shown as ‘Finished’. From this tab, the partial results can be visualized in different formats. (E) Specific viewer for an intermediate result in the pipeline (ClustalW). (F) Execution list showing service status.
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