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Slivka 0.8.3 services do not report what results might be generated, only what files are required:
https://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/slivka/api/services/msaprobs
{
"@url": "/slivka/api/services/msaprobs",
"author": "Jorge González-Domı́nguez, Yongchao Liu, Juan Touriño, Bertil Schmidt",
"classifiers": [
"Topic :: Computational biology :: Sequence analysis",
"Operation :: Analysis :: Sequence analysis :: Sequence alignment :: Multiple sequence alignment"
],
"description": "MSAProbs is a well-established state-of-the-art multiple sequence alignment algorithm for protein sequences. The design of MSAProbs is based on a combination of pair hidden Markov models and partition functions to calculate posterior probabilities.",
"id": "msaprobs",
"license": "GNU GPL ver. 3",
"name": "MSAProbs",
"parameters": [
{
"array": false,
"default": null,
"description": "",
"id": "input",
"mediaType": "application/fasta",
"mediaTypeParameters": {
},
"mimetype": "application/fasta",
"name": "Input file",
"required": true,
"type": "file"
},
{
"array": false,
"default": 2,
"description": "Number of passes of consistency transformation.",
"id": "consistency",
"max": 5,
"min": 0,
"name": "Consistency repetitions",
"required": false,
"type": "integer"
},
{
"array": false,
"default": 10,
"description": "Number of iterative refinement passes.",
"id": "iterative-refinement",
"max": 1000,
"min": 0,
"name": "Interative refinaement",
"required": false,
"type": "integer"
}
],
"presets": [],
"status": {
"errorMessage": "",
"status": "OK",
"timestamp": "2025-07-15T16:36:19"
},
"version": "0.9.7"
}
Without some indication of expected outputs, it means the client has to know what outputs to expect itself in order to use the service. Whilst this works, it means a client needs to run a service in order to discover what outputs are supported (and so learn its operational pattern). It would be better to report expected outputs directly:
"outputs": {
"alignment":
{ "media-type": "application/fasta" }
"log":
{"media-type": "text/plain"}
"error-log":
{"media-type": "text/plain"}
}
The outputs hash is simply the named outputs in the service definition without any 'path' or other internal attributes.
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