Web services

Originally Jalview used SRS server to retrieve sequence features for a given alignment. In addition certain remote alignment programs could be called from the Jalview interface and the results displayed in a new alignment panel.

Jalview's web based computations are now being developed further, using SOAP based services to expose protein sequence alignment and secondary structure prediction programs. These services actually run on the cluster based in Dundee, and maintained by the Barton group.

In the future, Jalview will be able to discover services dynamically, and the repertoire will include methods for repeat analysis, sequence identification and remote homology detection. The web service methodology will also allow potentially expensive Jalview analysis functions like PCA to be distributed, if necessary, when the user is dealing with very large numbers of sequences.