DAVID-WS: a stateful web service to facilitate gene/protein list analysis

DAVID-WS: a stateful web service to facilitate gene/protein list analysis

SUMMARY The database for annotation, visualization and integrated discovery (DAVID), which can be freely accessed at http://david.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/, is a web-based online bioinformatics resource that aims to provide tools for the functional interpretation of large lists of genes/proteins. It has been used by researchers from more than 5000 institutes worldwide, with a daily submission rate of ∼...

A procedure for Web Service Selection Using WS-Policy Semantic Matching

In general, Policy-based approaches play an important role in the management of web services, for instance, in the choice of semantic web service and quality of services (QoS) in particular. The present research work illustrates a procedure for the web service selection among functionality similar web services based on WS-Policy semantic matching. In this study, the procedure of WS-Policy publi...

Stateful Web Services: A Missing Point in Web Service Standards

Wiki-ws as a C2niwa Web Service Management Platform

The Wiki-WS platform was implemented within the C2NIWA project for production purposes. Wiki-WS stands for developing, managing and maintaining web services. The production deployment needed implementation of several functional improvements and establishing a strong security&safety policy. The WikiWiki-WS platform has to be used as an educational environment for developing web services and a pr...

Web Service Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL): Goals and Benefits

The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WSCDL) is an XML [1]-based language that describes peer-topeer collaborations of participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal. The Web Services [2] specifications offer a communication bridge between the hete...