In addition to access to LAPPS Grid tools and data, we have developed and contributed the following capabilities of the LAPPS Grid for use in Galaxy in order to support NLP research and development within that platform, including: 1. exploitation of our web service metadata to allow for automatic detection of input/output formats and requirements for modules in a workflow and subsequent automatic invocation of converters to make interoperability seamless and invisible to the user; 2. incorporation of authentication procedures for protected data using the open standard OAuth 9 , which specifies a process for resource owners to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials; and 3. addition of a visualization plugin that recognizes the kind of input (coreference, phrase structure) and then uses appropriate off-the-shelf components like BRAT and Graphviz to generate a visualization.
an additional, and potentially hugely significant, outcome of the LaPPS/Galaxy collaboration is that it enables the use of LaPPS Grid NLP services to extract information from repositories of biomedical publications such as PubMed 14 and pass it on to biomedical analysis and visualization tools available in Galaxy.