Development of SOAP API Service in Mass Spectral Database MassBank

We developed a new SOAP-API service in mass spectral database MassBank. Using the service, an arbitrary application software can access MassBank. Therefore, a user can make a program which combines functions of MassBank for user's own purpose, executes a fixed series of processes to large amount of data repeatedly, and performs a cooperative task with other internet services. Furthermore, a search function to MassBank can be introduced to an existing mass spectral tool. Though MassBank is a distributed database in the internet, using this SOAP-API service of massbank.jp, we can search spectra in all distributed database servers and obtain data without regard to the server where they really exist.