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XMPP for cloud computing in bioinformatics supporting discovery and invocation of asynchronous web services

Authors: 
Wagener, J.; Spjuth, O.; Willighagen, E.L.; Wikberg, J.E.S.

Background: Life sciences make heavily use of the web for both data provision and analysis.
However, the increasing amount of available data and the diversity of analysis tools call for machine
accessible interfaces in order to be effective. HTTP-based Web service technologies, like the
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and REpresentational State Transfer (REST) services, are
today the most common technologies for this in bioinformatics. However, these methods have
severe drawbacks, including lack of discoverability, and the inability for services to send status

Year: 
2008
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