Everything about Web server

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Web serverA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The HADDOCK2.4 web server for integrative modeling of biomolecular complexesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Mfold web server for nucleic acid folding and hybridization predictionCited 12,005 times
5. Go sideways: Web server directory indexA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Common Gateway InterfaceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Mfold web server for nucleic acid folding and hybridization prediction

  M. Zuker · 2003 · Nucleic Acids Research · 12,005 citations

• Enrichr: a comprehensive gene set enrichment analysis web server 2016 update

  Maxim V. Kuleshov, Matthew R. Jones, Andrew D. Rouillard · 2016 · Nucleic Acids Research · 11,085 citations

• deepTools2: a next generation web server for deep-sequencing data analysis

  Fidel Ramírez, Devon P Ryan, Björn Grüning · 2016 · Nucleic Acids Research · 8,981 citations

• GEPIA: a web server for cancer and normal gene expression profiling and interactive analyses

  Zefang Tang, Chenwei Li, Boxi Kang · 2017 · Nucleic Acids Research · 8,056 citations

• DAVID: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and functional annotation of gene lists (2021 update)

  Brad T Sherman, Ming Hao, Ju Qiu · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 6,404 citations

• A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

  Alexandros Stamatakis, Paul Hoover, Jacques Rougemont · 2008 · Systematic Biology · 6,093 citations

• HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

  R. D. Finn, J. Clements, S. R. Eddy · 2011 · Nucleic Acids Research · 5,576 citations

• g:Profiler: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists (2019 update)

  Uku Raudvere, Liis Kolberg, Ivan Kuzmin · 2019 · Nucleic Acids Research · 4,807 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The HADDOCK2.4 web server for integrative modeling of biomolecular complexes

  Rodrigo V. Honorato, Mikael E. Trellet, Brian Jiménez-García · 2024 · Nature Protocols · 708 citations

• ImageGP: An easy‐to‐use data visualization web server for scientific researchers

  Tong Chen, Yong‐Xin Liu, Luqi Huang · 2022 · iMeta · 411 citations

• PADLOC: a web server for the identification of antiviral defence systems in microbial genomes

  Leighton J Payne, Sean Meaden, Mario R Mestre · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 289 citations

• The ACPYPE web server for small-molecule MD topology generation

  Luciano Kagami, Alan Wilter, Adrian Diaz · 2023 · Bioinformatics · 246 citations

• BioTransformer 3.0—a web server for accurately predicting metabolic transformation products

  David S Wishart, Siyang Tian, Dana Allen · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 239 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Marshall C. Yovits · 1995
• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996
• Beginning JavaScriptPaul Wilton · 2000
• Programming WCF ServicesJuval Löwy, Michael S. Montgomery · 2007
• ApacheBen Laurie, Peter Laurie · 1997
• ASP in a NutshellA. Keyton Weissinger, Keyton Weissinger · 1999
• Programming ASP.NET AJAXChristian Wenz · 2007
• 📕CompTIA Server+ Study GuideTroy McMillan · 2016

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