Service Registry

Facilitates service discovery by collecting multiple web services into groups

When working with genomic and related health datasets, discovering new web services to use for computational workflows can be a time-consuming process. Developed by the Discovery Work Stream, the Service Registry API organises multiple web services that have implemented a Service Info endpoint into groups. By providing a mechanism to catalogue available web services, the Service Registry API helps facilitate service discovery across organisational boundaries without imposing communication restrictions on those services.

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Benefits

Enables discovery of web services
Flexible and simple to use

Target users

Developers

Image summary: Service Registry helps the genomics community discover services in data sharing networks.

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THEME

Data discovery

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Dive deeper into this product! Service discovery is at the root of any computational workflow using web-based APIs. However, many web services are hardcoded into workflows, and searching for new web services is often manual and challenging. Service Registry organises multiple services that have implemented a Service Info endpoint into groups. The Service Registry API can be used for a variety of use cases, such as creating a network of a certain type of service (e.g. the Beacon network), or enabling a specific organisation to collect all the services they use in one place.

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