Abstract

This FAIRsharing record describes: The BioCatalogue provided a common interface for registering, browsing and annotating Web Services to the Life Science community. Services in the BioCatalogue could be described and searched in multiple ways based upon their technical types, bioinformatics categories, user tags, service providers or data inputs and outputs. They were also subject to constant monitoring, allowing the identification of service problems and changes and the filtering-out of unavailable or unreliable resources. The system was accessible via a human-readable ‘Web 2.0’-style interface and a programmatic Web Service interface. The BioCatalogue followed a community approach in which all services can be registered, browsed and incrementally documented with annotations by any member of the scientific community.

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Web serviceWorld Wide WebDocumentationInterface (matter)Service (business)Identification (biology)Computer scienceWS-AddressingService providerUser interfaceWS-PolicyWeb standardsWeb developmentBiologyWeb application securityWeb mapping

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Year
2010
Type
article
Volume
38
Issue
Web Server
Pages
W689-W694
Citations
217
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Jayant Bhagat, Fabrice Tanoh, Eric Nzuobontane et al. (2010). BioCatalogue: a universal catalogue of web services for the life sciences. Nucleic Acids Research , 38 (Web Server) , W689-W694. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkq394

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10.1093/nar/gkq394