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-        <html>\r
-        <head><title>Web Services</title></head>\r
-        <body>\r
-        <p><strong>Web services</strong></p>\r
-        \r
-<p>A variety of web services are available from the Alignment window's <strong> \r
-  Web Service</strong> menu. </p>\r
-            <p>Jalview's distributed computations are SOAP based services exposing\r
-              protein sequence alignment and secondary structure prediction programs. These services actually run\r
-                on the cluster based in the School of Life Sciences, University of\r
-                  Dundee, and are maintained by the Barton group.\r
-                  </p>\r
-                  <p><strong>Web Service Dialog Box</strong></p>\r
-<img src="clwqueued.gif">\r
-<p>\r
-                  This dialog box is displayed when a web service job\r
-                  is submitted. It gives the name of the service and\r
-                  any method citation information, and monitors the\r
-                  progress of the calculation. The cancel button will\r
-                  permanently cancel the job, but this is only\r
-                  possible for some services.\r
-                  </p>\r
-                  <p>Current services:\r
-                  <ul><a href="msaclient.html"><strong>Multiple\r
-                  Sequence Alignment Services</strong></a><ul>\r
-                  <li><a href="clustalw.html">ClustalW Multiple Alignment and re-alignment</a><br>\r
-                  The clustal W service remains one of the more\r
-                  popular Jalview features.\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  <li><a href="muscle.html">Muscle Multiple Alignment</a><br>\r
-                  High Quality and High Throughput multiple alignments of proteins. This\r
-                  method can sometimes be more accurate than ClustalW when dealing with\r
-                  diverse sets of sequences.\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  <li><a href="mafft.html">MAFFT</a><br>\r
-                  Multiple Alignment with Fast Fourier Transforms -\r
-                  a highly accurate and high throughput dna and amino\r
-                  acid alignment method, performing at least as well\r
-                  as ClustalW and Muscle.\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  </ul>                  \r
-                  </li>\r
-                  <li><strong>Secondary Structure Prediction</strong>\r
-                  <ul>\r
-                  <li><a href="jnet.html">JNet</a><br>This is a front end to the existing <a\r
-                  href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/www-jpred/">JNet\r
-                  www server</a> allowing single sequence or profile\r
-                  based prediction.\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  </ul>\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  </ul>\r
-                  </p>\r
-                  <p>Watch this space! These are some of the services\r
-                  planned to be released soon:<ul>\r
-                  <li>Repeat analysis\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  <li>Remote Homology Detection<br>\r
-                  </li>\r
-                  </ul>\r
-                  In the future, Jalview will also be able to new discover services\r
-                  dynamically, and distribute expensive analysis functions like <a\r
-                  href="../calculations/pca.html">PCA</a> to the Dundee machines.</p>\r
-</body>\r
-</html>\r
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+-->
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Web Services</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+       <p>
+               <strong>Web services</strong>
+       </p>
+
+       <p>Jalview includes clients for a variety of web services for both
+               bioinformatic data retrieval and analysis.
+       <ul>
+               <li>The <a href="../features/seqfetch.html">Sequence Fetcher</a>
+                       utilises web services for sequence, alignment and structure retrieval
+                       provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and
+                       Distributed Annotation System servers that are capable of serving
+                       sequences.</li>
+               <li>The <a href="../features/dasfeatures.html">DAS Feature
+                               Fetcher</a> enables the retrieval and visualization of features from DAS
+                       annotation sources</li>
+               <li>The <a href="dbreffetcher.html">Database Reference
+                               Fetcher</a> transfers database references from records available from
+                       DAS or the public sequence databases.</li>
+               <li>The <strong>Web Services</strong> menu in each alignment
+                       window also provides access to the following:
+                       <ul>
+                               <li>Programs for <a href="msaclient.html">multiple sequence
+                                               alignment</a>, made available <em>via</em> <a href="JABAWS.html">Java
+                                               Bioinformatic Analysis Web Service (JABAWS)</a> servers.</li>
+                               <li>Jalview SOAP Web Services for <a href="jnet.html">secondary
+                                               structure prediction</a> based at the University of Dundee.</li>
+                               <li>Services for alignment analysis, such as <a
+                                       href="shmr.html">Multi-Harmony</a>.
+                               <li>Services for submitting IDs and sequences to external
+                                       bioinformatics services such as Envision2 (see <a href="#envision2">below</a>).</li>
+                       </ul>
+                       <p>
+                               <strong>Web Service Dialog Box</strong>
+                       </p> <img src="clwqueued.gif">
+                       <p>This dialog box is displayed when a web service job is
+                               submitted. It gives the name of the service and any method citation
+                               information, and monitors the progress of the calculation. The
+                               cancel button will permanently cancel the job, but this is only
+                               possible for some services.</p> The <a href="webServicesPrefs.html">Web
+                               Services Preference panel</a> controls the display and appearance of the
+                       submission and analysis services in the <strong>Web Services</strong>
+                       menu.</li>
+               <li>If Jalview encounters problems accessing any services, it may
+                       display a <a href="webServicesPrefs.html#wswarnings">warning
+                               dialog box</a> (this can be turned off using the web services
+                       preferences tab).</li>
+       </ul>
+       </p>
+       <p>
+               <strong>More about Jalview's Web Services</strong> <br> Jalview's
+               distributed computations utilise <a
+                       href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP">SOAP</a> and <a
+                       href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer">REST</a>
+               web services exposing sequence alignment, analysis, and secondary
+               structure prediction programs. Originally, Jalview 2's services were
+               maintained by the Barton group at the University of Dundee, and ran
+               programs on the Life Sciences High-performace Computing Cluster. With
+               the advent of <a href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/JABAWS">JABAWS</a>,
+               however, it is possible for anyone to host Jalview web services.
+       </p>
+       <p>
+               <strong><a name="envision2">Envision2 Services</a>
+               </strong>
+       </p>
+       <p>
+               Since version 2.5, Jalview has included a client to enable the user to
+               submit one or more sequences or sequence IDs to analysis workflows
+               provided by the <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/enfin-srv/envision2">EnVision2
+                       web application</a>. This allows Jalview users to easily access the
+               EnCore network of databases and analysis services developed by ENFIN (<a
+                       href="http://www.enfin.org">www.enfin.org</a>).
+       </p>
+</body>
+</html>