jORCA

jORCA integrates bioinformatics web services by standardizing service representations and composing automated workflows to enable interoperable analyses across genomic and proteomic resources.

Key Features:

• Uniform Representation: Provides a standardized representation that reconciles differences in service definitions, invocation protocols, communication methods, and data formats.
• Scalable Service Discovery: Supports discovery of bioinformatics web services across repositories to locate and reference heterogeneous tools at scale.
• Automatic Workflow Composition: Automates composition of multi-service workflows to enable execution of complex bioinformatics analyses without manual assembly of service calls.
• On-the-fly Data Standardization: Performs runtime data format transformation and standardization to mediate heterogeneous input/output formats between services.
• Customization and Extensibility: Supports extensible service definitions and advanced execution control to adapt service invocation and integration behavior.

Scientific Applications:

• Integration of bioinformatics web services: Facilitates interoperability and orchestration of heterogeneous web services for combined analyses.
• Genomic analysis: Enables construction and execution of workflows that integrate web services relevant to genomic data processing and analysis.
• Proteomics: Supports composition of service chains for proteomics analyses by mediating data formats and service interactions.

Methodology:

Abstracts heterogeneous web services into a uniform representation, implements scalable service discovery, performs automatic workflow composition, applies on-the-fly data standardization, and provides advanced execution control.