Abstract
The availability of bioinformatics web-based services is rapidly proliferating, for their interoperability and ease of use. The next challenge is in the integration of these services in the form of workflows, and several projects are already underway, standardizing the syntax, semantics, and user interfaces. In order to deploy the advantages of web services with locally installed tools, here we describe a collection of proxy client tools for 42 major bioinformatics web services in the form of European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) UNIX command-line tools. EMBOSS provides sophisticated means for discoverability and interoperability for hundreds of tools, and our package, named the Keio Bioinformatics Web Service (KBWS), adds functionalities of local and multiple alignment of sequences, phylogenetic analyses, and prediction of cellular localization of proteins and RNA secondary structures. This software implemented in C is available under GPL from http://www.g-language.org/kbws/ and GitHub repository http://github.com/cory-ko/KBWS. Users can utilize the SOAP services implemented in Perl directly via WSDL file at http://soap.g-language.org/kbws.wsdl (RPC Encoded) and http://soap.g-language.org/kbws_dl.wsdl (Document/literal).
Highlights
With more than 1700 services listed in the BioCatalogue at the time of this writing [1], a significant number of biological resources and tools is provided as web-based services, in light of their advantages in interoperability, ease of use, and the lack of requirements for the compute infrastructure as well as the effort in installation and maintenance [2]
Implementation Keio Bioinformatics Web Service (KBWS) is composed of two parts: a proxy web server providing SOAP service wrapper to bioinformatics web services, and UNIX command-line clients in the form of European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) tools that access the proxy web server
As an EMBOSS package, KBWS can be utilized with graphical user interfaces through JEMBOSS and wEMBOSS, and browser-based access with EMBOSS Explorer is available at our Results and Discussion The following set of commands comprises a workflow for generating a sequence logo image for a set of amino acid sequences of FOXP2 [17], using BLAST web service, extracting the list of IDs, aligning the sequences with MUSCLE, extracting a certain region from the alignment, and generating its sequence logo
Summary
With more than 1700 services listed in the BioCatalogue at the time of this writing [1], a significant number of biological resources and tools is provided as web-based services, in light of their advantages in interoperability, ease of use, and the lack of requirements for the compute infrastructure as well as the effort in installation and maintenance [2]. Here we present the Keio Bioinformatics Web Service (KBWS), a collection of proxy client tools for 42 major bioinformatics web-based services in the form of European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) [10] associated software (EMBASSY) package of UNIX command-line utilities.
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