An active registry for bioinformatics web services.

Pettifer, S; Thorne, D; McDermott, P; Attwood, T; Baran, J; Bryne, J C; Hupponen, T; Mowbray, D; Vriend, G

Pettifer, S; Thorne, D; McDermott, P; Attwood, T; Baran, J; Bryne, J C; Hupponen, T; Mowbray, D; Vriend, G.

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Pettifer S; School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK. steve.pettifer@manchester.ac.uk

Bioinformatics ; 25(16): 2090-1, 2009 Aug 15.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19460889

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

SUMMARY:

The EMBRACE Registry is a web portal that collects and monitors web services according to test scripts provided by the their administrators. Users are able to search for, rank and annotate services, enabling them to select the most appropriate working service for inclusion in their bioinformatics analysis tasks. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Web site implemented with PHP, Python, MySQL and Apache, with all major browsers supported. (www.embraceregistry.net).

Subject(s)

Computational Biology/methods; Internet; Software; Databases, Factual; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis/methods; User-Computer Interface

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Software / Computational Biology / Internet Language: En Journal: Bioinformatics Journal subject: INFORMATICA MEDICA Year: 2009 Type: Article Affiliation country: United kingdom

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