EMBOSS

From Monday 28th February 2011 the WSEmboss service has been deprecated and the service will be retired during 2011. New development should use the Soaplab services or the tool specific services referenced below.

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.

For more information see:

• EMBOSS homepage

Web service registry entries:

• BioCatalogue
• seekda!

For a selection of EMBOSS tools, separate services are available, for example:

• Pairwise Sequence Alignment:
  • EMBOSS matcher (REST)
  • EMBOSS matcher (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS needle (REST)
  • EMBOSS needle (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS stretcher (REST)
  • EMBOSS stretcher (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS water (REST)
  • EMBOSS water (SOAP)

• Sequence Translations:
  • EMBOSS Transeq (REST)
  • EMBOSS Transeq (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS Sixpack (REST)
  • EMBOSS Sixpack (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS Backtranseq (REST)
  • EMBOSS Backtranseq (SOAP)
  • EMBOSS Backtranambig (REST)
  • EMBOSS Backtranambig (SOAP)

A complete set of EMBOSS tools, including some EMBASSY packages (e.g. PHYLIP) can be found in Soaplab.

Sample clients are provided for a number of programming languages. For details of how to use these clients, download the client and run the program without any arguments.

For further details see EMBOSS Clients.

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/wsdl/WSEmboss.wsdl

If you have any questions or comments or you plan to use this service as part of a course or for a high number of submissions, please contact us EBI Support.