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Titel: On the lifetime of bioinformatics web services
VerfasserIn: Kern, Fabian
Fehlmann, Tobias
Keller, Andreas
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Nucleic acids research
Bandnummer: 48
Heft: 22
Startseite: 12523
Endseite: 12533
Verlag/Plattform: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
DDC-Sachgruppe: 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Web services are used through all disciplines in life sciences and the online landscape is growing by hundreds of novel servers annually. However, availability varies, and maintenance practices are largely inconsistent. We screened the availability of 2396 web tools published during the past 10 years. All servers were accessed over 133 days and 318 668 index files were stored in a local database. The number of accessible tools almost linearly increases in time with highest availability for 2019 and 2020 (∼90%) and lowest for tools published in 2010 (∼50%). In a 133-day test frame, 31% of tools were always working, 48.4% occasionally and 20.6% never. Consecutive downtimes were typically below 5 days with a median of 1 day, and unevenly distributed over the weekdays. A rescue experiment on 47 tools that were published from 2019 onwards but never accessible showed that 51.1% of the tools could be restored in due time. We found a positive association between the number of citations and the probability of a web server being reachable. We then determined common challenges and formulated categorical recommendations for researchers planning to develop web-based resources. As implication of our study, we propose to develop a repository for automatic API testing and sustainability indexing.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1125
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-330331
hdl:20.500.11880/30357
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-33033
ISSN: 1362-4962
Datum des Eintrags: 11-Jan-2021
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Supplementary data
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaa1125#supplementary-data
Fakultät: M - Medizinische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: M - Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und medizinische Informatik
Professur: M - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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