title: jORCA: easily integrating bioinformatics Web Services.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Web services technology is becoming the option of choice to deploy bioinformatics tools that are universally available. One of the major strengths of this approach is that it supports machine-to-machine interoperability over a network. However, a weakness of this approach is that various Web Services differ in their definition and invocation protocols, as well as their communication and data formats-and this presents a barrier to service interoperability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  jORCA is a desktop client aimed at facilitating seamless integration of Web Services. It does so by making a uniform representation of the different web resources, supporting scalable service discovery, and automatic composition of workflows. Usability is at the top of the jORCA agenda; thus it is a highly customizable and extensible application that accommodates a broad range of user skills featuring double-click invocation of services in conjunction with advanced execution-control, on the fly data standardization, extensibility of viewer plug-ins, drag-and-drop editing capabilities, plus a file-based browsing style and organization of favourite tools. The integration of bioinformatics Web Services is made easier to support a wider range of users. .
authors.affiliation: Computer Architecture Department, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martín-Requena
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ríos
authors.forename: Maximiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramírez
authors.forename: Oswaldo
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Trelles
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software