title: Executing SADI services in Galaxy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In recent years Galaxy has become a popular workflow management system in bioinformatics, due to its ease of installation, use and extension. The availability of Semantic Web-oriented tools in Galaxy, however, is limited. This is also the case for Semantic Web Services such as those provided by the SADI project, i.e. services that consume and produce RDF. Here we present SADI-Galaxy, a tool generator that deploys selected SADI Services as typical Galaxy tools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  SADI-Galaxy is a Galaxy tool generator: through SADI-Galaxy, any SADI-compliant service becomes a Galaxy tool that can participate in other out-standing features of Galaxy such as data storage, history, workflow creation, and publication. Galaxy can also be used to execute and combine SADI services as it does with other Galaxy tools. Finally, we have semi-automated the packing and unpacking of data into RDF such that other Galaxy tools can easily be combined with SADI services, plugging the rich SADI Semantic Web Service environment into the popular Galaxy ecosystem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SADI-Galaxy bridges the gap between Galaxy, an easy to use but "static" workflow system with a wide user-base, and SADI, a sophisticated, semantic, discovery-based framework for Web Services, thus benefiting both user communities.
authors.affiliation: Biological Informatics, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Campus of Montegancedo, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain ; Genomic Resources, Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Sarriena auzoa z/g, 48940 Leioa - Bilbo, Spain.
authors.forename: Mikel Egaña
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Aranguren
authors.affiliation: Biological Informatics, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Campus of Montegancedo, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.
authors.forename: Alejandro Rodríguez
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: González
authors.affiliation: Biological Informatics, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP), Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Campus of Montegancedo, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain.
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
keywords: Galaxy; OWL; RDF; SADI; SPARQL; Web services