Slivka and Slivka-bio: a lightweight framework for presenting executables as web services and its application in bioinformatics. (opens in new tab)

Motivation. Execution of code is critical for computational biology, but technical requirements can prevent others from running it. Public web-apps and services thus remain the most effective way to make code accessible, but no fully reusable infrastructure exists to help researchers do this. Results. We developed Slivka to enable easy provision of robust HTTP-based execution services backed by local or distributed hardware; accessible via curl and dedicated clients. We demonstrate it with Sl...