Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

Recent advances in genome sequencing technologies provide unprecedented opportunities
to characterize individual genomic landscapes and identify mutations relevant for diagnosis …

As computational work becomes more and more integral to many aspects of scientific
research, computational reproducibility has become an issue of increasing importance to …

Abstract The BioMart Community Portal (www. biomart. org) is a community-driven effort to
provide a unified interface to biomedical databases that are distributed worldwide. The …

Abstract Since 2004 the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has provided access
to a wide range of databases and analysis tools via Web Services interfaces. This comprises …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous RNA molecules that regulate gene expression
through mRNA degradation and/or translation repression, affecting many biological …

Unipro UGENE is a multiplatform open-source software with the main goal of assisting
molecular biologists without much expertise in bioinformatics to manage, analyze and …

The Taverna workflow tool suite (http://www. taverna. org. uk) is designed to combine
distributed Web Services and/or local tools into complex analysis pipelines. These pipelines …

The EMBL-EBI provides access to various mainstream sequence analysis applications.
These include sequence similarity search services such as BLAST, FASTA, InterProScan …

Background Biologists need to perform complex queries, often across a variety of
databases. Typically, each data resource provides an advanced query interface, each of …