ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2019
A snapshot of 3649 Web-based services published between 1994 and 2017 shows a decrease in availability after 2 years.
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- Web-Based Survival Analysis Tool Tailored for Medical Research (KMplot): Development and Implementation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Popularity and performance of bioinformatics software: the case of gene set analysis.BMC bioinformatics · 2021Article
- Towards reproducible computational drug discovery.Journal of cheminformatics · 2020Review
- Challenges and recommendations to improve the installability and archival stability of omics computational tools.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Infrastructures of systems biology that facilitate functional genomic study in rice.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe long-term availability of online Web services is of utmost importance to ensure reproducibility of analytical results. However, because of lack of maintenance following acceptance, many servers become unavailable after a short period of time. Our aim was to monitor the accessibility and the decay rate of published Web services as well as to determine the factors underlying trends changes.
methodsWe searched PubMed to identify publications containing Web server-related terms published between 1994 and 2017. Automatic and manual screening was used to check the status of each Web service. Kruskall-Wallis, Mann-Whitney and Chi-square tests were used to evaluate various parameters, including availability, accessibility, platform, origin of authors, citation, journal impact factor and publication year.
resultsWe identified 3649 publications in 375 journals of which 2522 (69%) were currently active. Over 95% of sites were running in the first 2 years, but this rate dropped to 84% in the third year and gradually sank afterwards (P < 1e-16). The mean half-life of Web services is 10.39 years. Working Web services were published in journals with higher impact factors (P = 4.8e-04). Services published before the year 2000 received minimal attention. The citation of offline services was less than for those online (P = 0.022). The majority of Web services provide analytical tools, and the proportion of databases is slowly decreasing. Conclusions. Almost one-third of Web services published to date went out of service. We recommend continued support of Web-based services to increase the reproducibility of published results.
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