[Biophp-dev] Seeking comments on CVS, XML, and other TLA's

[Greg Tyrelle]

*** Dong Gregorio wrote: 
  |>I am at this point working with the NCBI BLAST query module and the 
  |>EUtils modules.  I have this feeling that I "ought" to be using the 
  |>XML-parser capabilities in PHP, but as I keep looking at it I
  |
  |Do you have some links/materials on this?  I can't comment 
  |until I've read up on it.  Also, would you happen to have

The EUtils service documentation is here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html

  |a list of bioinformatics software/tools, and which among 
  |them can be accessed online, in a purely interactive manner,
  |or via some sort of remote procedure call, SOAP/web service,
  |etc?

I've never seen one but you might find the following links
interesting:

 o EMBL soap service:

 http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/soap/servers/SimpleBioSequenceService/

 o  Biomoby: a web services registry project

 http://www.biomoby.org/

 o DDBJ's web services:

 http://xml.nig.ac.jp/wsdl/index.jsp

 o Omni Gene:

 http://omnigene.sourceforge.net/

Web services support for BioPHP anyone :]

_greg 

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