BioUML server
From BioUML platform
BioUML server is a Java application that is started as servlet on J2EE compatible server (Tomcat server is being used).
Like BioUML workbench it also uses Eclipse runtime to manage plug-ins that provide different services. The main services provided by BioUML server are:
- database service - provides information about database and secure access to it,
- access service - provides access to databases (read/write),
- diagram service - provides protocol to read/write diagram and all diagram elements during one HTTP request,
- Lucene service - provides full text search and its configuration,
- query service - provides indexed search for a database,
BioUML server supports access to different types of databases, such as:
- relational databases (for example, Ensembl database that is available as MySQL dump)
- text databases (for exampe, KEGG/Ligand database)
- XML databases (for example, databases in BioPAX or SBML formats)
- databases available via web services (for example, SABIO-RK database)
