A Semantic Infrastructure for the Integration of Bioinformatics Services

Web services integration has been a vigorous research area for the last years. With the introduction of the semantic Web the publication of expressive metadata in a shared knowledge framework enables the deployment of services that can intelligently use Web resources. Syntactic and semantic interoperability of services is crucial for services integration and complex scientific workflows creation. In this paper we propose a semantic based infrastructure for bioinformatics services integration that is designed and implemented in the context of the ACGT European project. This infrastructure features the integration of many different service registries in unified "meta-repository" and provides a knowledge based querying facility.