jORCA: easily integrating bioinformatics Web Services
jORCA: easily integrating bioinformatics Web Services
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DOI：
10.1093/bioinformatics/btp709
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发表时间：
2010-02-15
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影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Trelles, Oswaldo
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作者：
Martin-Requena, Victoria;Rios, Javier;Trelles, Oswaldo
动机：Web Services技术已成为专门可用的生物信息学工具的选择。这种方法的主要优势之一是它支持网络上的机器对机器互操作性。但是，这种方法的弱点是各种Web服务的定义和调用协议以及它们的通信和数据格式有所不同，这给出了服务互操作性的障碍。回报：Jorca是旨在促进无缝集成的桌面客户端Web服务。它通过对不同的Web资源进行统一表示，支持可扩展的服务发现以及自动组成工作流程来做到这一点。可用性位于乔尔卡议程的顶部；因此，这是一个高度可自定义且可扩展的应用程序，可容纳广泛的用户技能，其中包括双击服务与高级执行控制，在Fly Data Standartization，Viewer Plug-ins的可扩展性上，拖放和删除编辑功能，以及基于文件的浏览样式和最喜欢的工具的组织。使生物信息学Web服务的集成更加易于支持更广泛的用户。
Motivation: Web services technology is becoming the option of choice to deploy bioinformatics tools that are universally available. One of the major strengths of this approach is that it supports machine-to-machine interoperability over a network. However, a weakness of this approach is that various Web Services differ in their definition and invocation protocols, as well as their communication and data formats-and this presents a barrier to service interoperability.Results: jORCA is a desktop client aimed at facilitating seamless integration of Web Services. It does so by making a uniform representation of the different web resources, supporting scalable service discovery, and automatic composition of workflows. Usability is at the top of the jORCA agenda; thus it is a highly customizable and extensible application that accommodates a broad range of user skills featuring double-click invocation of services in conjunction with advanced execution-control, on the fly data standardization, extensibility of viewer plug-ins, drag-and-drop editing capabilities, plus a file-based browsing style and organization of favourite tools. The integration of bioinformatics Web Services is made easier to support a wider range of users.