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Technology - Exercise 1
Browse to the EBI WebServices page (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/). Have a look at the WebServices (menu:development->webservices) offered by EBI. Our first sample using a SOAP based WebService was WSDbfetch for accessing EMBL and other databases. Let's have a more detailed look at WSDL file :
  1. Which methods are supported by this service ?
  2. What is the input / output format for each methods?
  3. Where is the location (URI) of the service?