SOAP-based services provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute

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

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biotechnology
  • Computational Biology*
  • Databases, Bibliographic
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Europe
  • Internet
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / physiology
  • Sequence Analysis*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein
  • Software*
  • Systems Integration

Substances

  • Proteins