Web Services 4 Life Sciences: A Curated Catalogue of Life Science Web Services

WS 4LS是一项旨在提供对与生命科学社区相关的Web服务目录的轻松访问的倡议。Web服务被W3C定义为一种软件系统，旨在通过网络实现机器对机器的互操作性。然而，Web服务的发现今天是一个相当困难的任务，板凳科学家谁没有时间或手段，奋进在信息学相关的这些。Web服务描述得很差。WS 4LS旨在通过广泛使用服务本体来提供易于访问的Web服务文档化内容，通过这些服务本体，根据最终用户的要求发现功能或操作将是微不足道的。直到最近，实验室还必须在当地投资实施和维护生物信息学工具和数据库，以执行日常和复杂的任务。WS 4LS为科学家解决了Web服务的“在哪里和如何”，并公开了如何将这些构建到本地分析管道中。WS 4LS还将提供创建社区的手段，这些社区将分享知识并加强各级的科学互动。WS 4LS电子科学家社区将补充现有的努力，并产生一个类似Google的Coop [http：//www.google.com/coop/]。

WS4LS is an initiative aimed at providing easy access to a catalogue of Web Services relevant to the life science communities. Web Services are defined by the W3C as a software system designed to enable machine to machine interoperability over a network. However, the discovery of Web Services is today quite a difficult task for bench scientists whom do not have the time or means to endeavor in the informatics related to these. Web Services are poorly described. WS4LS intends to provide easy, human accessible content documenting Web Services by extensive use of service ontologies through which it will be trivial to discover a function or operation, as required by the end user. Until recently, laboratories had to invest locally in the implementation and maintenance of bioinformatic tools and databases to carry out both day to day as well as complex tasks. WS4LS addresses the 'where and how' of Web Services for scientists and exposes how to build these into local analytical pipelines. WS4LS will also provide the means for creating communities that will share knowledge and enhance scientific interactions at various levels. WS4LS e-scientists communities will complement existing efforts and generate a Google-like Coop [http://www.google.com/coop/].