Magallanes: a web services discovery and automatic workflow composition tool

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Data types and services used in the example

Input DT	Service	Output DT
Object	getAASequence	AASeq
	getAASequenceCollection	AASeq
VirtualSeq
GenericSeq	fromGenericSequenceCollectionToFasta	Fasta
	fromGenericSequenceToFasta	Fasta
	fromGenericToAASequence	AASeq
AASeq	runBlastp	BlastText
	runTblastn	BlastText
NNSeq	runBlastn	BlastText
	runBlastx	BlastText
	runTblastx	BlastText
TextPlain
TextFormatted
BlastText	getBestHitsFromBlast	Object
	getIDsFromBlast	Object
	parseMultipleAlignFromBLASTText	FastaAAmult
Fasta	fromFastaToAASequence	AASeq
	fromFastaToGenericSequence	GenericSeq
	runDisruptionPhysicalProperties	TextPlain
FastaAA	fromFASTAToAASequence	AASeq
	runPSIBlastpFromFASTA	BlastText
FastaAAmult	fromFASTAToAASequenceCollection	AASeq

Schematic representation of a reduced set of data types and associated services able to process these different types of data. Although tools names are descriptive, a long description is available as supplementary material [see Additional file 1].

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