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.
Topics
Collections
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
Operations
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.
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.