An integration architecture framework for e-genomics services

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies are becoming a commodity and, thus, genomic services delivered on line (e-genomics) is a growing market. This has led to the development of a plethora of tools traditionally covering only a small set of features of the process, though it's true than recently more complete tools have arisen. In such a scenario, integration between tools from different precedence becomes key to market evolution and consolidation. This paper proposes a service oriented framework factoring of the core services required to support NGS applications by identifying these services. This conforms a sound basis to provide a toolkit and a reference implementation, whose details are introduced in the work.