Table 1.
Data types and services used in the example
| Input DT | Service | Output DT |
| Object | getAASequence | AASeq |
| getAASequenceCollection | AASeq | |
| VirtualSeq | ||
| GenericSeq | fromGenericSequenceCollectionToFasta | Fasta |
| fromGenericSequenceToFasta | Fasta | |
| fromGenericToAASequence | AASeq | |
| AASeq | runBlastp | BlastText |
| runTblastn | BlastText | |
| NNSeq | runBlastn | BlastText |
| runBlastx | BlastText | |
| runTblastx | BlastText | |
| TextPlain | ||
| TextFormatted | ||
| BlastText | getBestHitsFromBlast | Object |
| getIDsFromBlast | Object | |
| parseMultipleAlignFromBLASTText | FastaAAmult | |
| Fasta | fromFastaToAASequence | AASeq |
| fromFastaToGenericSequence | GenericSeq | |
| runDisruptionPhysicalProperties | TextPlain | |
| FastaAA | fromFASTAToAASequence | AASeq |
| runPSIBlastpFromFASTA | BlastText | |
| FastaAAmult | fromFASTAToAASequenceCollection | AASeq |
Schematic representation of a reduced set of data types and associated services able to process these different types of data. Although tools names are descriptive, a long description is available as supplementary material [see Additional file 1].