BioSWR--semantic web services registry for bioinformatics

Despite of the variety of available Web services registries specially aimed at Life Sciences, their scope is usually restricted to a limited set of well-defined types of services. While dedicated registries are generally tied to a particular format, general-purpose ones are more adherent to standard...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-09, Vol.9 (9), p.e107889-e107889
Main Authors: Repchevsky, Dmitry, Gelpi, Josep Ll
Format: Article
Language:English
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformàtica
Biology and Life Sciences
Computational Biology
Computer and Information Sciences
Database Management Systems
Databases, Factual
Descriptions
Internet
Internet service providers
Knowledge representation
Language
Life sciences
Ontology
Programming languages
Protocol
Protocol (computers)
Query languages
Semantic web
Semantics
Terminology as Topic
User-Computer Interface
Web 2.0
Web Ontology Language-OWL
Web semàntic
Web services
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Summary:Despite of the variety of available Web services registries specially aimed at Life Sciences, their scope is usually restricted to a limited set of well-defined types of services. While dedicated registries are generally tied to a particular format, general-purpose ones are more adherent to standards and usually rely on Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). Although WSDL is quite flexible to support common Web services types, its lack of semantic expressiveness led to various initiatives to describe Web services via ontology languages. Nevertheless, WSDL 2.0 descriptions gained a standard representation based on Web Ontology Language (OWL). BioSWR is a novel Web services registry that provides standard Resource Description Framework (RDF) based Web services descriptions along with the traditional WSDL based ones. The registry provides Web-based interface for Web services registration, querying and annotation, and is also accessible programmatically via Representational State Transfer (REST) API or using a SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. BioSWR server is located at http://inb.bsc.es/BioSWR/and its code is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioswr/under the LGPL license.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0107889