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====== WSEmboss Clients ======

===== Description =====

[[http://www.emboss.org|EMBOSS]] (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community.

The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Since extensive libraries are provided with the package providing a platform to allow scientists to develop and release software in the true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole.
===== Web Service =====

For details of the service used by these clients see [[.:wsemboss|EMBOSS Service]].

===== Perl Client =====

=== Install SOAP::Lite ===

To run the Perl client you need to install SOAP::Lite. SOAP::Lite is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and lightweight interface to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for both client and server applications. This client requires [[http://search.cpan.org/~byrne/SOAP-Lite-0.60a/|SOAP::Lite version 0.60]].

=== Get the client ===

Download the Perl client: ''[[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/downloads/perl/soaplite/emboss.pl|emboss.pl]]''

To get usage information run the client without arguments:
<code>perl emboss.pl</code> 

===== Java Client =====

=== Dependencies ===

Download and unzip the library files ''[[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/downloads/java/lib-1.4.zip|lib-1.4.zip]]'' and add the jars to the Java classpath.

=== Get the client ===

Download the Java client:
  * Executable: ''[[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/downloads/java/bin/WSEmboss.jar|WSEmboss.jar]]''
  * Source code: ''[[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/downloads/java/src/uk/ac/ebi/webservices/WSEmbossClient.java|WSEmbossClient.java]]''

To get usage information run the client without arguments:
<code>java -Djava.ext.dirs=lib -jar WSEmboss.jar</code>
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