Java Bioinformatics Analyses Web Services (JABAWS) main page

What is JABAWS?

JABAWS 2

JABAWS^2.0:Disorder is free software which provides web services for prediction of protein disorder, multiple sequence alignment and amino acid conservation conveniently packaged to run on your local computer, server or cluster. Disorder prediction services are based on DisEMBL, IUPred, Ronn, GlobPlot, conservation is calculated by AACon, multiple sequence alignment services are the Clustal Omega, Clustal W, MAFFT, MUSCLE, TCOFFEE and PROBCONS. +JABA Web Services can be accessed from the Jalview multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench to allow multiple alignment calculations limited only by your own local computing resources.

JAva Bioinformatics Analysis Web Services (JABAWS) is a -collection of SOAP web -services for bioinformatics.
- JABAWS is designed to make it easy to access bioinformatics -analysis programs and databases over the web from anywhere, at -anytime. Unlike other web services, JABAWS can be easily installed on different platforms and work straight out of the box with minimum configuration. JABA Web Services are designed for use by other programs rather -than people. - The current version of JABAWS is compatible with version 2.6 of Jalview, and provides five web -services for multiple sequence alignment:

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For Users

+ The Server: JABAWS Virtual Appliance: (520M) +
+ The Client: Jalview (18M) +

To use JABA Web Services on most operating systems, just download and install the JABAWS Virtual Appliance (VA) and point Jalview at it.

For System Administrators

The Server: JABAWS Web Application aRchive (51M)

JABAWS requires a Servlet 2.4 compatible servlet container like Apache-Tomcat to run. Please check the quick start guide for installation instructions.

For Bioinformaticians/Developers

+The Server: JABAWS Web Application aRchive (51M) +
+ The Client: + Command Line Client binary | source + + + +

You can either use the JABAWS Virtual Appliance or the JABAWS Web Application aRchive (WAR) from your own computer or a lab server. The WAR version gives greater flexibility but requires a bit more configuration. Alternatively you can just script against our public server (see below) with the command line client or you own script. +Check out the quick start guide for further details.

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Public JABAWS Server

You can access our public JABA Web Services with our command line client, Jalview, or with your own program. Jalview is configured to use this public JABAWS server by default.

Clustal W
MAFFT
MUSCLE
-TCOFFEE
PROBCONS
The JABAWS public web services address is http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws
A detailed web services description is available from here: WSDL List

The maximum number of sequences you can align with this public web service is 1000 with up to 1000 letters average length. Should you find this to be insufficient for your needs, or if you are concerned about privacy or on an unreliable network connection, then you can download and run the JABAWS Server on your own hardware.

Why JABAWS?

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JABAWS can be deployed on nearly any operation system, it can operate on a stand alone server as well as submit the jobs to the cluster. Thanks to DRMAA it integrates well with a large variety of cluster job management systems. Jalview from version 2.6 integrates with JABAWS and can be configured to submit jobs to different versions of JABAWS, for example to your local, lab version, or publicly available version elsewhere. As JABAWS can be installed in your lab, or indeed on your personal computer, it eliminates the need to send your private information to the outside, to one of the publicly accessible servers. JABAWS can run programs with additional parameters defined by you, so you are no longer limited to defaults. JABAWS is safe to install for public access as it could limit the size of the tasks which it accepts and denies access to resources within web application folder. Please look in the how to for more information on JABAWS benefits.

Public JABAWS Server

Please note that JABAWS computing cluster is going for a maintenance shutdown on the weekend starting from the 8-th of January. Therefore, no services will be available from 6pm Friday the 7th of January, until 12am Monday the 10th of January 2011 GMT.

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Feature	Description
URL	http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws
Execution limits	JABAWS installation is backed up by the College of -Life Sciences HPC cluster. Tasks exceeding 1000×1000 -(sequences per letters) will not be accepted for alignment. If you -would like to work with bigger alignments consider installing -JABAWS in your lab.
Web Services Description	WSDL List

For programmatic access to JABAWS please refer to the How To section using JABAWS in your program.

Please feel free to post your questions/issues to the jabaws-discuss mailing list.

Authors

Peter Troshin and Geoff Barton are the authors of the JABA Web -Services. Jim Procter helped with the JABAWS design process and web -pages, and developed the interface and management components in -Jalview to access JABAWS servers.

Publication

Peter V. Troshin, James B. Procter and Geoffrey J. Barton - "Java Bioinformatics Analysis Web Services for Multiple Sequence Alignment - JABAWS:MSA" Bioinformatics 2011; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr304.