Semantic Web Service provision: a realistic framework for Bioinformatics programmers.
Several semantic Web Services clients for Bioinformatics have been released, but to date no support systems for service providers have been described. We have created a framework ('MobyServlet') that very simply allows an existing Java application to conform to the MOBY-S semantic Web Services protocol. Using an existing Java program for codon-pair bias determination as an example, we enumerate the steps required for MOBY-S compliance. With minimal programming effort, such a deployment has the advantages of: (1) wider exposure to the user community by automatic inclusion in all MOBY-S client programs and (2) automatic interoperability with other MOBY-S services for input and output. Complex on-line analysis will become easier for biologists as more developers adopt MOBY-S.


BACKGROUND
The framework and documentation are freely available from the Java developer's section of http://www.biomoby.org/.
Gordon
Paul M K
PM
University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics, Calgary, AB, Canada. gordonp@ucalgary.ca
Trinh
Quang
Q
Sensen
Christoph W
CW
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011381:Programming Languages; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface