title: TogoWS: integrated SOAP and REST APIs for interoperable bioinformatics Web services.
abstract: Web services have become widely used in bioinformatics analysis, but there exist incompatibilities in interfaces and data types, which prevent users from making full use of a combination of these services. Therefore, we have developed the TogoWS service to provide an integrated interface with advanced features. In the TogoWS REST (REpresentative State Transfer) API (application programming interface), we introduce a unified access method for major database resources through intuitive URIs that can be used to search, retrieve, parse and convert the database entries. The TogoWS SOAP API resolves compatibility issues found on the server and client-side SOAP implementations. The TogoWS service is freely available at: http://togows.dbcls.jp/.
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan. ktym@hgc.jp
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Mitsuteru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.forename: Toshihisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takagi
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
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