title: An active registry for bioinformatics web services.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The EMBRACE Registry is a web portal that collects and monitors web services according to test scripts provided by the their administrators. Users are able to search for, rank and annotate services, enabling them to select the most appropriate working service for inclusion in their bioinformatics analysis tasks.
  
  
  METHODS
  Web site implemented with PHP, Python, MySQL and Apache, with all major browsers supported. (www.embraceregistry.net).
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK. steve.pettifer@manchester.ac.uk
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pettifer
authors.forename: D
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authors.lastname: Thorne
authors.forename: P
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authors.lastname: McDermott
authors.forename: T
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authors.lastname: Attwood
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baran
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Bryne
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authors.lastname: Hupponen
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authors.lastname: Mowbray
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mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface