SRS WSObjects
SRS WSObjects enables developers to quickly build life science informatics solutions incorporating the full capabilities of SRS. Using SRS WSObjects' comprehensive APIs applications can be developed to address internal needs whilst exploiting the comprehensive data sets and analysis tools provided by SRS. Custom interfaces can be built to tackle novel problems, such as constructing workflows and analysis pipelines to assess gene expression results or provide protein annotations. All applications can be run against a single SRS server, which is also used to support the web interface, ensuring a simple and robust SRS architecture.
SRS WSObjects works in combination with the SRS multi-tier application and is available as an add-on module for SRS. SRS WSObjects supports APIs for Java, C# and Perl, which interact remotely with the SRS server via web services.
Key Features:
- Pure client language implementations, with a common design but using language-specific tools and features.
- Uses the runtime environment of SRS - no separate server or configuration required.
- Security configurations allow only authorised users access to SRS data from client applications
- Excel Add-in making SRS queries and functions such as tool launching available as Excel functions programmed from the function bar.
A wide range of SRS applications can be quickly and easily developed employing SRS WSObjects, such as:
- Automated workflows for analysing and pipelining bioinformatics data
- Custom web server pages for quick access SRS search and retrieval functionality.
- Interactive visualization tools for data retrieved from SRS.
- Embedded SRS query and retrieval interfaces within larger Java or Windows applications.
- Cron-managed Perl scripts to regularly perform certain operations and store or analyze results.
- Automation of repetitive research tasks with spreadsheets programmed using Visual Basic macros or Excel functions.
