PMID- 20472643 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100927 LR - 20211020 IS - 1362-4962 (Electronic) IS - 0305-1048 (Print) IS - 0305-1048 (Linking) VI - 38 IP - Web Server issue DP - 2010 Jul TI - TogoWS: integrated SOAP and REST APIs for interoperable bioinformatics Web services. PG - W706-11 LID - 10.1093/nar/gkq386 [doi] AB - Web services have become widely used in bioinformatics analysis, but there exist incompatibilities in interfaces and data types, which prevent users from making full use of a combination of these services. Therefore, we have developed the TogoWS service to provide an integrated interface with advanced features. In the TogoWS REST (REpresentative State Transfer) API (application programming interface), we introduce a unified access method for major database resources through intuitive URIs that can be used to search, retrieve, parse and convert the database entries. The TogoWS SOAP API resolves compatibility issues found on the server and client-side SOAP implementations. The TogoWS service is freely available at: http://togows.dbcls.jp/. FAU - Katayama, Toshiaki AU - Katayama T AD - Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan. ktym@hgc.jp FAU - Nakao, Mitsuteru AU - Nakao M FAU - Takagi, Toshihisa AU - Takagi T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100514 PL - England TA - Nucleic Acids Res JT - Nucleic acids research JID - 0411011 SB - IM MH - *Computational Biology MH - *Databases, Factual MH - Internet MH - *Software MH - Systems Integration MH - User-Computer Interface PMC - PMC2896079 EDAT- 2010/05/18 06:00 MHDA- 2010/09/29 06:00 PMCR- 2010/05/14 CRDT- 2010/05/18 06:00 PHST- 2010/05/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/05/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/09/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2010/05/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - gkq386 [pii] AID - 10.1093/nar/gkq386 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jul;38(Web Server issue):W706-11. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq386. Epub 2010 May 14.