SOA∕BPM-based Dynamic SW Integration Scheme for Various Bioinformatics Tools
Tae-Kyung Kim, Seong-Hyeuk Nam, Tae‐Sung Jung, Kyoung-Ran Kim, Jaesoo Yoo, Wan-Sup Cho, Theodore E. Simos, George Psihoyios · AIP conference proceedings · 2008
As numerous software tools have been developed in the bioinformatics, flexible integration or modification of conventional tools is an important issue. Many researchers want to combine these tools for their purpose both in vivo and in silico. Recently, SOA (service‐oriented architecture) and BPM (business process management) are emerging as an ultimate solution for efficient and flexible software integration or modification. They provide loosely coupled integration instead of previous tightly coupled integration approaches. In the loosely coupled integration, component systems can be modified or replaced freely and some components in a system may reside in remote systems in the web service style. In this paper, we present an SOA/BPM‐based integration scheme for various software tools in bioinformatics. We apply the scheme in the EST analysis, which consists of multiple components and steps, and verify the usefulness of the integration scheme.