title: Biological Web Service Repositories Review.
abstract: Web services play a key role in bioinformatics enabling the integration of database access and analysis of algorithms. However, Web service repositories do not usually publish information on the changes made to their registered Web services. Dynamism is directly related to the changes in the repositories (services registered or unregistered) and at service level (annotation changes). Thus, users, software clients or workflow based approaches lack enough relevant information to decide when they should review or re-execute a Web service or workflow to get updated or improved results. The dynamism of the repository could be a measure for workflow developers to re-check service availability and annotation changes in the services of interest to them. This paper presents a review on the most well-known Web service repositories in the life sciences including an analysis of their dynamism. Freshness is introduced in this paper, and has been used as the measure for the dynamism of these repositories.
authors: Department of Computer Languages and Computing Science, Higher Technical School of Computer Science Engineering, University of Malaga, Malaga, 29071, Spain.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Urdidiales-Nieto
authors: Department of Computer Languages and Computing Science, Higher Technical School of Computer Science Engineering, University of Malaga, Malaga, 29071, Spain.
authors: Ismael
authors: I
authors: Navas-Delgado
authors: Department of Computer Languages and Computing Science, Higher Technical School of Computer Science Engineering, University of Malaga, Malaga, 29071, Spain.
authors: José F
authors: JF
authors: Aldana-Montes
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines; D019295:Computational Biology; D066289:Data Curation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet
keywords: curation; detection of changes; dynamism; frequency of changes; freshness; web services