Today, i have improved the way to call the RNA Web Services. In general, biologists know what they want to do (predict a secondary structure, annotate a 3D structure, produce an alignment,...). But they don't know which algorithm can help them. And, frequently, they don't care about the name of an algorithm, they simply want a result to pursue their reflexion. Consequently, the way to call the RNA Web Services using "algorithm_name/action_name" was not the most intuitive one. I renamed them and i only kept the "action_name" (predict2d, plot2d,...). If several algorithms are/will be available for a given Web Service, a "tool" option allows the user to define one. If it is omitted, a default algorithm will do the job.
To reflect these changes, I have updated the online documentation and the Java tool. I have also updated the posts on this blog providing examples of usage for these Web Services. By the way, i have registered them into the biocatalogue repository.
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