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. 2014 Sep 18;9(9):e107889.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107889. eCollection 2014.

BioSWR--semantic web services registry for bioinformatics

Dmitry Repchevsky  1 , Josep Ll Gelpi  2
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BioSWR--semantic web services registry for bioinformatics

Dmitry Repchevsky et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Despite of the variety of available Web services registries specially aimed at Life Sciences, their scope is usually restricted to a limited set of well-defined types of services. While dedicated registries are generally tied to a particular format, general-purpose ones are more adherent to standards and usually rely on Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). Although WSDL is quite flexible to support common Web services types, its lack of semantic expressiveness led to various initiatives to describe Web services via ontology languages. Nevertheless, WSDL 2.0 descriptions gained a standard representation based on Web Ontology Language (OWL). BioSWR is a novel Web services registry that provides standard Resource Description Framework (RDF) based Web services descriptions along with the traditional WSDL based ones. The registry provides Web-based interface for Web services registration, querying and annotation, and is also accessible programmatically via Representational State Transfer (REST) API or using a SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. BioSWR server is located at http://inb.bsc.es/BioSWR/and its code is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioswr/under the LGPL license.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. BioSWR general architecture.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Find all registered Web services via SPARQL DESCRIBE query.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Add/Remove SAWSDL reference via SPARQL UPDATE query.
Figure 4
Figure 4. Example of Semantic Rules definitions.
Here wsdl: Interface sawsdl#modelReference property is restricted to topic_0003 (Topic). Because topic_2225 (Protein databases) is a subclass of topic_0003, urn:lsid:inb.bsc.es#wsdl.interface(getEntryfromPDB) interface (which is an individual of wsdl: Interface) may be annotated with it without making the ontology inconsistent.
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