Title
Aviator: A Web Service For Monitoring The Availability Of Web Services
Abstract
With Aviator, we present a web service and repository that facilitates surveillance of online tools. Aviator consists of a user-friendly website and two modules, a literature-mining based general and a manually curated module. The general module currently checks 9417 websites twice a day with respect to their availability and stores many features (frontend and backend response time, required RAM and size of the web page, security certificates, analytic tools and trackers embedded in the webpage and others) in a data warehouse. Aviator is also equipped with an analysis functionality, for example authors can check and evaluate the availability of their own tools or those of their peers. Likewise, users can check the availability of a certain tool they intend to use in research or teaching to avoid including unstable tools. The curated section of Aviator offers additional services. We provide API snippets for common programming languages (Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript) as well as an OpenAPI documentation for embedding in the backend of own web services for an automatic test of their function. We query the respective APIs twice a day and send automated notifications in case of an unexpected result. Naturally, the same analysis functionality as for the literature-based module is available for the curated section. Aviator can freely be used at https://www.ccb.uni-saarland.de/aviator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/nar/gkab396
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
49
W1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0305-1048
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Fehlmann196.11
Fabian Kern233.55
Pascal Hirsch301.01
Robin Steinhaus400.34
Dominik Seelow500.34
Andreas Keller617321.19