A service-oriented architecture for Virtual Laboratory Integration and Management

Virtual laboratory information management system (VLIMS) is crucial to a remote virtual laboratory integration and management. An architecture for the remote VLIMS was proposed. The architecture integrates heterogeneous experimental system, using expanded Web services mechanism, based on a real-time metadata management. In implementation, the schema evolution with version was proposed in the abstract by model management operators; Web services composition was shown by a business process example. It satisfies the requirements for information management of a virtual laboratory.