Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul;38(Web Server issue):W706-11. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq386. Epub 2010 May 14.
Web services have become widely used in bioinformatics analysis, but there exist incompatibilities in interfaces and data types, which prevent users from making full use of a combination of these services. Therefore, we have developed the TogoWS service to provide an integrated interface with advanced features. In the TogoWS REST (REpresentative State Transfer) API (application programming interface), we introduce a unified access method for major database resources through intuitive URIs that can be used to search, retrieve, parse and convert the database entries. The TogoWS SOAP API resolves compatibility issues found on the server and client-side SOAP implementations. The TogoWS service is freely available at: http://togows.dbcls.jp/.
Web 服务已在生物信息学分析中得到广泛应用,但接口和数据类型存在不兼容的情况,这妨碍了用户充分利用这些服务的组合。因此,我们开发了 TogoWS 服务,以提供具有高级功能的集成接口。在 TogoWS 的 REST(代表性状态转移)API 中,我们通过直观的 URI 为主要数据库资源引入了一种统一的访问方法,这些 URI 可用于搜索、检索、解析和转换数据库条目。TogoWS 的 SOAP API 解决了服务器和客户端 SOAP 实现中发现的兼容性问题。TogoWS 服务可免费使用:http://togows.dbcls.jp/。