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Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Web Server issue):W11-W16; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp300
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. suppl_2 W11-W16
© 2009 The Author(s)
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Web API for biology with a workflow navigation system

Yeondae Kwon*, Yasumasa Shigemoto, Yoshikazu Kuwana and Hideaki Sugawara

Laboratory for Research and Development of Biological Databases, Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1111, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 55 981 6895; Fax: +81 55 981 6896; Email: yekwon{at}lab.nig.ac.jp

Received January 26, 2009. Revised April 6, 2009. Accepted April 16, 2009.

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) provides Web-based systems for biological analysis, called Web APIs for biology (WABI). So far, we have developed over 20 SOAP services and several workflows that consist of a series of method invocations. In this article, we present newly developed services of WABI, that is, REST-based Web services, additional workflows and a workflow navigation system. Each Web service and workflow can be used as a complete service or a building block for programmers to construct more complex information processing systems. The workflow navigation system aims to help non-programming biologists perform analysis tasks by providing next applicable services on Web browsers according to the output of a previously selected service. With this function, users can apply multiple services consecutively only by following links without any programming or manual copy-and-paste operations on Web browsers. The listed services are determined automatically by the system referring to the dictionaries of service categories, the input/output types of services and HTML tags. WABI and the workflow navigation system are freely accessible at http://www.xml.nig.ac.jp/index.html and http://cyclamen.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/, respectively.


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