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Many different meta-data resources are available on-line, and several of these provide a Web services model for interactions. R and Bioconductor support the use of different technologies (including HTTP, SOAP, and XML-RPC) for accessing different Web services. In this chapter we describe the tools for accessing Web services and demonstrate their use in a number of examples.
Our view is very similar to that proposed by Stein (2002), who emphasized Web services as the basic computational resource for bioinformatics. Well-designed Web services will play an essential role in solving many bioinformatic problems and R has the capability of playing many different roles, both on the client and the server side.
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Carey, V.J., Lang, D.T., Gentry, J., Zhang, J., Gentleman, R. (2005). Querying On-line Resources. In: Gentleman, R., Carey, V.J., Huber, W., Irizarry, R.A., Dudoit, S. (eds) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29362-0_8
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