Editing Bioinformatics (section)

===Web services in bioinformatics===
[[SOAP]]- and [[REST]]-based interfaces have been developed to allow client computers to use algorithms, data and computing resources from servers in other parts of the world. The main advantage are that end users do not have to deal with software and database maintenance overheads.

Basic bioinformatics services are classified by the [[European Bioinformatics Institute|EBI]] into three categories: [[Sequence alignment software|SSS]] (Sequence Search Services), [[Multiple sequence alignment|MSA]] (Multiple Sequence Alignment), and [[#Sequence analysis|BSA]] (Biological Sequence Analysis).<ref>{{Cite book | vauthors = Nisbet R, Elder IV J, Miner G |title=Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5np34a5fmQC&q=bioinformatics%20service%20categories%20EBI&pg=PA328|publisher=Academic Press |year=2009 |page=328 |chapter=Bioinformatics |isbn=978-0-08-091203-5 }}</ref> The availability of these [[Service-orientation|service-oriented]] bioinformatics resources demonstrate the applicability of web-based bioinformatics solutions, and range from a collection of standalone tools with a common data format under a single web-based interface, to integrative, distributed and extensible [[bioinformatics workflow management systems]].

==== Bioinformatics workflow management systems ====
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A [[bioinformatics workflow management system]] is a specialized form of a [[workflow management system]] designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or a workflow, in a Bioinformatics application. Such systems are designed to
* provide an easy-to-use environment for individual application scientists themselves to create their own workflows,
* provide interactive tools for the scientists enabling them to execute their workflows and view their results in real-time,
* simplify the process of sharing and reusing workflows between the scientists, and
* enable scientists to track the [[provenance]] of the workflow execution results and the workflow creation steps.

Some of the platforms giving this service: [[Galaxy (computational biology)|Galaxy]], [[Kepler scientific workflow system|Kepler]], [[Apache Taverna|Taverna]], [[UGENE]], [[Anduril (workflow engine)|Anduril]], [[High-performance Integrated Virtual Environment|HIVE]].
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