The EMBL-EBI SoapLab server was closed down on Friday 1st February 2013

We suggest that Soaplab users replace their use of the EMBL-EBI Soaplab services with equivalents from:

• EMBL-EBI Web Services: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/
• Soaplab at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: http://wsembnet.vital-it.ch/
• Other publically available Soaplab servers, for example those found by Google
• Services found in the various Service registries, for example: http://www.biocatalogue.org/

Or consider installing EMBOSS locally and either using the programs directly or via a local Soaplab server (see http://soaplab.sourceforge.net/soaplab2/ for details of how to download and install a Soaplab server).

Taverna users may wish to discuss possible alternative Web Services with the Taverna community, see http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ for details.

The following information describing the EMBL-EBI Soaplab server is provided solely for reference by users migrating to other services.

EMBL-EBI Soaplab Web Services include most EMBOSS programs that are suitable for launching through Web Services. In order to see the list of the EMBOSS programs included you can visit its Spinet web interface here. Soaplab Clients Guide page lists different ways of using Soaplab Web Services.

1st Feburary 2013

The EMBL-EBI Soaplab server has been shutdown, see above for details of alternative services.

21st March 2012

EMBL-EBI SoapLab server will be closed down by 1st of February 2013.

18th July 2011

Soaplab Web Services has been upgraded to EMBOSS-6.3.1 and Soaplab-2.3.1

• Martin Senger, Peter Rice, Tom Oinn, ”Soaplab - a unified Sesame door to analysis tools”, Proceedings, UK e-Science- All Hands Meeting 2003, p. 509-513, 2003