title: Web services in the life sciences.
abstract: Web services provide a standard way of publishing applications and data sources over the internet, enabling mass dissemination of knowledge. In the life sciences, the web-service approach is seen as being a road to standardizing the multitude of tools available from different providers. In this article, we present an overview of the technology (focusing on life-science applications), we list the currently available service providers and we discuss advanced issues raised by the concept.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London, UK, SW7 2AZ. vc100@doc.ic.ac.uk
authors.forename: Vasa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Curcin
authors.forename: Moustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghanem
authors.forename: Yike
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines; D019295:Computational Biology; D020407:Internet