Job Dispatcher

Job Dispatcher provides programmatic access and job management for running and integrating sequence analysis tools and results with EMBL-EBI resources such as UniProt, InterPro, ENA, and Ensembl Genomes for genomics and proteomics research.


Key Features:

  • Programmatic APIs: Exposes RESTful and SOAP APIs for job submission, monitoring, and result retrieval.
  • Integration with EMBL-EBI resources: Connects analysis outputs with UniProt, InterPro, ENA, and Ensembl Genomes.
  • Job management: Provides capabilities to submit, monitor, and retrieve computational analysis jobs.
  • Scalability: Updated to accommodate growing data volumes and large-scale sequence analysis demands.
  • Support for diverse sequence analyses: Facilitates a wide array of sequence analysis tasks relevant to genomics and proteomics.

Scientific Applications:

  • Genomics: Execute and integrate sequence analysis workflows for genome-scale data.
  • Proteomics: Perform protein sequence analyses and integrate results with protein databases such as UniProt and InterPro.
  • Data integration and interoperability: Enable discoverability, interoperability, and reusability of biological sequence data across EMBL-EBI resources.

Methodology:

jDispatcher provides programmatic connectivity between public EMBL-EBI resources by exposing RESTful and SOAP web service APIs for submission, monitoring, and retrieval of sequence analysis jobs and by integrating increasing volumes of biological data.

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Details

Maturity:
Mature
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
api, web application
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
Java, Perl, Python
Added:
11/4/2022
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

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Publications

Madeira F, Madhusoodanan N, Lee J, Eusebi A, Niewielska A, Tivey ARN, Lopez R, Butcher S. The EMBL-EBI Job Dispatcher sequence analysis tools framework in 2024. Nucleic Acids Research. 2024;52(W1):W521-W525. doi:10.1093/nar/gkae241. PMID:38597606. PMCID:PMC11223882.

Madeira F, Pearce M, Tivey ARN, Basutkar P, Lee J, Edbali O, Madhusoodanan N, Kolesnikov A, Lopez R. Search and sequence analysis tools services from EMBL-EBI in 2022. Nucleic Acids Research. 2022;50(W1):W276-W279. doi:10.1093/nar/gkac240. PMID:35412617. PMCID:PMC9252731.

PMID: 35412617
PMCID: PMC9252731
Funding: - EMBL-EBI: 824087 - BY-COVID: 101046203 - EarlyCause: 848158

Madeira F, Park Ym, Lee J, Buso N, Gur T, Madhusoodanan N, Basutkar P, Tivey ARN, Potter SC, Finn RD, Lopez R. The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47(W1):W636-W641. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz268. PMID:30976793. PMCID:PMC6602479.

PMID: 30976793
PMCID: PMC6602479
Funding: - European Molecular Biology Laboratory: 654039

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