Architecture of the text indexing tool chain

This figure describes how Peregrine-based web service is used by Linker or other clients.

Explanation of each component

• ​Linker software.
• Fingerprint response can be either in XML or JSON
• ​Intext-semantic software. This is the web service layer of Peregrine indexing service. It is deployed as a Tomcat web application. Please contact Kees Burger or Leon Mei for access at ​https://trac.nbic.nl/intext-semantic/
• Peregrine libraries. Refer to ArchitectureSpecification
• Ontology. Refer to DB Schema and ErasmusMC ontology file format