The WSDbfetch service provides meta-information methods to get details of the databases, formats and styles available:

1. getSupportedDBs() operation
2. getSupportedFormats() operation
3. getSupportedStyles() operation
4. getDbFormats(db) operation
5. getFormatStyles(db, format) operation

More detailed information about the available databases can be found in the dbfetch help.

The sequence similarity search services implement meta-information methods to get the details of the available databases:

• FASTA
  1. FASTA (REST): parameterdetails resource.
  2. FASTA (SOAP): getParameterDetails(parameterId) operation.
  3. WSFasta: getDatabases() operation.
• NCBI BLAST
  1. NCBI BLAST (REST): parameterdetails resource.
  2. NCBI BLAST (SOAP): getParameterDetails(parameterId) operation.
• PSI-BLAST
  1. PSI-BLAST (REST): parameterdetails resource.
  2. PSI-BLAST (SOAP): getParameterDetails(parameterId) operation.
• PSI-Search
  1. PSI-Search (REST): parameterdetails resource.
  2. PSI-Search (SOAP): getParameterDetails(parameterId) operation.
• WU-BLAST
  1. WU-BLAST (REST): parameterdetails resource.
  2. WU-BLAST (SOAP): getParameterDetails(parameterId) operation.
  3. WSWUBlast: getDatabases() operation.