摘要：While many view the world wide web (WWW) as an interactive environment primarily designed for interactive use, more and more sites are providing web services that can be accessed programmatically. In this article we describe some preliminary tools that have been added to the annotate package in the Bioconductor project www.bioconductor.org. These tools facilitate interaction with resources provided at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) located at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. These ideas represent only a very early exploration of a single site and we welcome any contributions to the project in the form of enhancements, new tools, or tools adapted to other sites providing web services.
