Discovering Pathways of Service Oriented Biological Processes

Service oriented modeling and deployment of biological processes allow these processes to be published, discovered and, most importantly, invoked on the Web. This in-place invocation capability provides the basis for simulation based validation and predictive analysis of discovered pathways linking published services. We present a Web service mining framework that enables the discovery and validation of such pathways. In our experiment, we model the semantic interfaces of biological processes as WSML Web services and deploy them through the execution environment WSMX. We show how pathways involving these processes are discovered and simulated using our service mining approach.