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IBM developer works article on web services for bioinformatics:

This series describes the process of building, deploying, and using high-throughput Web services for bioinformatics applications. This is meant to serve as a guide for development of software based on the Open-Bioinformatics Foundations software toolkits with packages such as BioPerl, BioJava, and BioPython.

Discusses how to complicate the creation of a BLAST web service by using SOAP, WSDL and "the grid" etc. cf. REST and EUtils.

Neil Saunders just finished his state of BioPerl talk with some excellent "real world" example of using BioPerl in a genome sequencing project.

Specifically Neil talked about using bioperl to find genes that are unique between two organisms using BioPerl's SearchIO tools. He also uses Bioperls SeqIO tools to write out annotations of newly sequenced genomes in GenBank format for visualisation.