The EMBL-EBI provides access to various mainstream sequence analysis applications.
These include sequence similarity search services such as BLAST, FASTA, InterProScan …

Scientific data analyses often combine several computational tools in automated pipelines,
or workflows. Thousands of such workflows have been used in the life sciences, though their …

Background More than in other domains the heterogeneous services world in bioinformatics
demands for a methodology to classify and relate resources in a both human and machine …

Motivation: Web services technology is becoming the option of choice to deploy
bioinformatics tools that are universally available. One of the major strengths of this …

Support for automated service discovering and workflow composition is increasingly
important as the number of Web Services and data types in bioinformatics and biomedicine …

Background There have been a number of recent efforts (eg BioCatalogue, BioMoby) to
systematically catalogue bioinformatics tools, services and datasets. These efforts rely on …

The wide-scale development of ontologies in the bioinformatics domain facilitates their use
in the creation of scientific workflows. To speed up the design of workflows, a Service …

Summary In the Life Sciences, numerous questions can be addressed only by
comprehensively searching different types of data that are inherently ordered, or are …

Search Computing has been proposed to support the integration of the results of search
engines with other data and computational resources. A key feature of the resulting …

This chapter presents how well known bioinformatics resources can be described as search
services in the search computing framework and how integrated analyses over such …