Navas-Delgado Ismael, Rojano-Muñoz Maria del Mar, Ramírez Sergio, Pérez Antonio J, Andrés León Eduardo, Aldana-Montes Jose F, Trelles Oswaldo
Integrated Bioinformatics (GNV5) at the University of Málaga, National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB), Málaga, Spain.
Bioinformatics. 2006 Jan 1;22(1):106-11. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti740. Epub 2005 Oct 27.
In addition to existing bioinformatics software, a lot of new tools are being developed world wide to supply services for an ever growing, widely dispersed and heterogeneous collection of biological data. The integration of these resources under a common platform is a challenging task. To this end, several groups are developing integration technologies, in which services are usually registered in some sort of catalogue to allow novel discovering and accessing mechanisms to be implemented. However, each service demands specific interfaces to accommodate their parameters and it is a complicated task linking the different service inputs and outputs to solve a biological problem.
In this work we address the design and implementation of a versatile web client to access BioMOBY compatible services (a system by which a client can interact with multiple sources of biological data regardless of the underlying format or schema) using the service description stored in the BioMOBY catalogue. The automatic interface generator significantly reduces developing time and produces uniform service access mechanisms. The design and proof of concept (for such a client) including the generic interface generator have been developed and implemented in the National Institute for Bioinformatics in Spain.
The INB (National Institute for Bioinformatics, Spain) platform is available at www.inab.org/MOWServ
除了现有的生物信息学软件外，全球正在开发许多新工具，以为不断增长、广泛分散且异构的生物数据集合提供服务。在一个通用平台下整合这些资源是一项具有挑战性的任务。为此，多个团队正在开发整合技术，其中服务通常在某种目录中注册，以实现新颖的发现和访问机制。然而，每个服务都需要特定的接口来适配其参数，并且将不同的服务输入和输出联系起来以解决生物学问题是一项复杂的任务。
在这项工作中，我们致力于设计和实现一个通用的网络客户端，以使用存储在BioMOBY目录中的服务描述来访问与BioMOBY兼容的服务（一个系统，通过该系统客户端可以与多种生物数据来源进行交互，而无需考虑底层格式或模式）。自动接口生成器显著减少了开发时间，并产生了统一的服务访问机制。（针对这样一个客户端的）设计和概念验证，包括通用接口生成器，已在西班牙国家生物信息学研究所开发并实现。
西班牙国家生物信息学研究所（INB）平台可在www.inab.org/MOWServ获取
