nodalpoint.org

This is an announcement of a bioinformatics tool, published as freeware for the community.

Geneious is an easy-to-use, cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Unix) bioinformatics data analysis and visualization tool. It has an open API for writing plugins. You can use Geneious to compare genes from different species, to build an evolutionary tree to see how closely related they are, or to search for literature on any topic in medicine or biology. You can view and extract gene annotations from whole genomes, and interactive 3D graphics allow you to move around protein structures.

Version 1.0 of Geneious has just been published as freeware. Biomatters hopes that you will put the program to good use in your research, and we are eager to hear your comments and feedback.

IBM developer works article on web services for bioinformatics:

This series describes the process of building, deploying, and using high-throughput Web services for bioinformatics applications. This is meant to serve as a guide for development of software based on the Open-Bioinformatics Foundations software toolkits with packages such as BioPerl, BioJava, and BioPython.

Discusses how to complicate the creation of a BLAST web service by using SOAP, WSDL and "the grid" etc. cf. REST and EUtils.