Webservices

The goal of the GCP webservices is to create a data exchange network.
The web services provide standard structured access to the GCP scientific data.
In this way all GCP members will have access to all resources, regardless of data format and computer platform.

The data availability via the GCP webservices runs parallel to the data availability via download of GCP datasets from the Central Registry.

Detailed information on the GCP webservices technologies, development and installation is avialable.
This page offers further information on the GCP selected webservice technologies, documentation, and (daily updated status of) the webservice providers.

Web services technologies:

• BioCASE,   the Biological Collection Access Service for Europe, enables a unified access to heterogeneous databases.



• BioMOBY  is mostly consumed by computer programmes to send and retrieve scientific data for analysis. BioMOBY has been selected as the main web service sharing media in the GCP.



• TAPIR,  the successor of BioCASE, with two main new characteristics: dynamic output mapping and the ability to serve BioMOBY services natively. TAPIR has been selected as the main technology to deploy web services that provide data directly from databases.

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