title: Bioinformatics data distribution and integration via Web Services and XML.
abstract: It is widely recognized that exchange, distribution, and integration of biological data are the keys to improve bioinformatics and genome biology in post-genomic era. However, the problem of exchanging and integrating biology data is not solved satisfactorily. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is rapidly spreading as an emerging standard for structuring documents to exchange and integrate data on the World Wide Web (WWW). Web service is the next generation of WWW and is founded upon the open standards of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). This paper presents XML and Web Services technologies and their use for an appropriate solution to the problem of bioinformatics data exchange and integration.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Science, Sichuan University/Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Chengdu 610064, China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yizheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000639:trends; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration