Social Media (SM) are the most widespread and rapid data generation applications on the
Internet increase the study of these data. However, the efficient processing of such massive …

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 …

With the rapid adoption of high-throughput omic approaches to analyze biological samples
such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, each analysis can …

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 …

An increasing number of researchers support reproducibility by including pointers to and
descriptions of datasets, software and methods in their publications. However, scientific …

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 …

Increased reliance on computational approaches in the life sciences has revealed grave
concerns about how accessible and reproducible computation-reliant results truly are …

Replication is the cornerstone of a cumulative science [1]. However, new tools and
technologies, massive amounts of data, interdisciplinary approaches, and the complexity of …

Ecology is evolving rapidly and increasingly changing into a more open, accountable,
interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive science. Discovering, integrating and …

Abstract Background The NCBI BLAST suite has become ubiquitous in modern molecular
biology and is used for small tasks such as checking capillary sequencing results of single …