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  • Web-services provided by this environment

    CU*STAR, Biopedia, and the STAR sites (such as micro*scope) provide access to their resources via SOAP webservices. SOAP allows developers to build applications based on resources stored in CU*STAR, Biopedia, and STARs without any knowledge for the internal structure of these databases.
    Data are obtained by calling specific functions that return data arrays of various structures. A developer may use all or some of the data comming from these arrays. An advantage of SOAP is that it is platform independent; it can be called using various programming languages and from various operating systems. Another big advantage of webservices (including SOAP) is that the data requested is always up to date. There is no need for additional interaction with the data provider.

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    The materials are made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. If you do not accept the terms of this license, you should not download any materials. For more information, please contact us by email: microscope@mbl.edu.

    You will need a 'keycode' to access the web services of this site. See Get keycode.

    For a list of web-services provided see web-services list.

    Examples of how these services might be used:
  • build a classification tree with the CU*STAR SOAP interface
  • search the classification tree with the CU*STAR SOAP interface
  • obtain the foreign keys (CU*STAR, and uBio nameBank identifiers) that are needed for interaction with other web environments, or for registering data locally using the CU*STAR SOAP interface
  • get descriptions of taxa using Biopedia SOAP interface
  • get random images to display in your website using the STAR SOAP interfaces
  • get content for a specific taxon or a group of taxa using the STAR SOAP interfaces
  • integrate data from various STAR websites using the STAR SOAP interfaces
  • more and more...




  • micro*scope - version 6.0 - March, 2006
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