JAva Bioinformatics Analysis Web Services (JABAWS) is a collection of SOAP web services for Bioinformatics.
Currently JABAWS provides five web
services for multiple sequence alignment Clustal W, MAFFT, MUSCLE, TCOFFEE and PROBCONS. Unlike other web services you can run JABAWS services from your own computer. This puts you in control of the web services - they will be where and when you need them, have no restrictions and your data privacy is guaranteed. JABAWS scales well from the single user single computer to the cluster with hundreds of users. Finally, you do not have to be an expert to use JABAWS - the installation is simple and you can use the services from the comfort of your desktop via Jalview.
Public JABAWS Server
You can access our public JABA Web Services with our command line client, the Jalview, or write your own program. To guarantee a level service for everyone our public services impose some restrictions on the size and the number of the jobs you can submit. Currently we do not process tasks that exceed 1000 sequences per 1000 letters on average. Should you find this to be insufficient for your needs you can download and run JABAWS Server on your own hardware. This also applies if the privacy is a concern or an Internet connection is a problem.
- The JABAWS public web services address is http://www.combio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws
- Detailed web services description is available from here: WSDL List
Contact Us
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.