Aviator
Aviator is a web service facilitating easy surveillance of scientific online tools. It currently checks more than 13,000 websites twice a day for availability and saves numerous features (response time, RAM usage security certificates, analytic tools / trackers, etc.) in a FAIR data repository.
Description
Aviator
https://ccb-compute2.cs.uni-saarland.de/aviator
Aviator is a web-server monitoring the availability of other published web-servers. It allows researchers to monitor their own tools or to asses if a tool they would like to access is temporarily or permanently offline.
Aviator is composed of two modules:
- Tool List: web-servers collected automatically from literature
- Aviator-enabled: web-servers manually added by their authors
The web-server URL or an API endpoint provided by the authors are queried twice per day. In addition to providing an availability overview we provide the possibility for authors to be notified if their webserver is offline for an unexpected period of time.
To add your published web-server to Aviator a simple API endpoint and a registration is needed.
License
Participating organisations
Reference papers
- 1.Author(s): Tobias Fehlmann, Fabian Kern, Pascal Hirsch, Robin Steinhaus, Dominik Seelow, Andreas KellerPublished in Nucleic Acids Research by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2021, page: W46-W5110.1093/nar/gkab396
- 2.Author(s): Fabian Kern, Tobias Fehlmann, Andreas KellerPublished in Nucleic Acids Research by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2020, page: 12523-1253310.1093/nar/gkaa1125
Mentions
- 1.Author(s): Jan Brezovsky, Aaftaab Sethi, Bartłomiej SurpetaPublished in Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology by Elsevier in 2025, page: 559-57110.1016/b978-0-323-95502-7.00089-0
- 2.Author(s): Tsukasa Fukunaga, Junichi Iwakiri, Michiaki HamadaPublished in Methods in Molecular Biology, RNA Structure Prediction by Springer US in 2023, page: 175-19510.1007/978-1-0716-2768-6_11
- 3.Author(s): Dong Si, Hanze Meng, Jonas Pfab, Yinrui Deng, Yutong Xie, Jackson Tan, Sheung Him Martin Chow, Jason Chen, Aditi JainPublished in Computational Biology, Algorithms and Methods in Structural Bioinformatics by Springer International Publishing in 2022, page: 101-11410.1007/978-3-031-05914-8_6
- 1.Author(s): Anthony Stell, Vedant Chauhan, Sandra Amador, Felix Beuschlein, Judith Favier, David Gil, Philip Greenwood, Ronald de Krijger, Matthias Kroiss, Samanta Ortuno, Attila Patocs, Axel WalchPublished in Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications in 2023, page: 105-11610.5220/0011665100003414
- 2.Author(s): Wasana NgaogatePublished in 2023 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC) by IEEE in 2023, page: 341-34710.1109/icsec59635.2023.10329704
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- 3.Author(s): Michal Shaposhnikov, Juilee Thakar, Bradford C. BerkPublished in Circulation Research by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in 2025, page: 1147-116510.1161/circresaha.125.325438
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- 6.Author(s): Marisa Loach, Amirhossein Naghsh Nilchi, Diana Chiang, Morgan Howells, Florian Heyl, Helena Rasche, Julia Jakiela, Mehmet Tekman, Menna Gamal, Pablo Moreno, Saskia Hiltemann, Timon Schlegel, Björn Grüning, Rolf Backofen, Pavankumar Videm, Wendi BaconPublished in Cell Genomics by Elsevier BV in 2025, page: 10100510.1016/j.xgen.2025.101005
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- 10.Author(s): Amitava Roy, Ethan Ward, Illyoung Choi, Michele Cosi, Tony Edgin, Travis S Hughes, Md Shafayet Islam, Asif M Khan, Aakash Kolekar, Mariah Rayl, Isaac Robinson, Paul Sarando, Edwin Skidmore, Tyson L Swetnam, Mariah Wall, Zhuoyun Xu, Michelle L Yung, Nirav Merchant, Travis J WheelerPublished in Nucleic Acids Research by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2024, page: D477-D48610.1093/nar/gkae1109
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- 15.Author(s): Luis Pedro CoelhoPublished in PLOS Computational Biology by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in 2024, page: e101192010.1371/journal.pcbi.1011920
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- 17.Author(s): Federico GagoPublished in Marine Drugs by MDPI AG in 2023, page: 10010.3390/md21020100
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- 20.Author(s): Daniel Garijo, Hervé Ménager, Lorraine Hwang, Ana Trisovic, Michael Hucka, Thomas Morrell, Alice Allen, Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries, SciCodes ConsortiumPublished in PeerJ Computer Science by PeerJ in 2022, page: e102310.7717/peerj-cs.1023
- 21.Author(s): Alexandre G. de Brevern, Joseph RebehmedPublished in Amino Acids by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in 2022, page: 575-59010.1007/s00726-021-03119-z
- 22.Author(s): Valérie de Crécy-lagard, Rocio Amorin de Hegedus, Cecilia Arighi, Jill Babor, Alex Bateman, Ian Blaby, Crysten Blaby-Haas, Alan J Bridge, Stephen K Burley, Stacey Cleveland, Lucy J Colwell, Ana Conesa, Christian Dallago, Antoine Danchin, Anita de Waard, Adam Deutschbauer, Raquel Dias, Yousong Ding, Gang Fang, Iddo Friedberg, John Gerlt, Joshua Goldford, Mark Gorelik, Benjamin M Gyori, Christopher Henry, Geoffrey Hutinet, Marshall Jaroch, Peter D Karp, Liudmyla Kondratova, Zhiyong Lu, Aron Marchler-Bauer, Maria-Jesus Martin, Claire McWhite, Gaurav D Moghe, Paul Monaghan, Anne Morgat, Christopher J Mungall, Darren A Natale, William C Nelson, Seán O’Donoghue, Christine Orengo, Katherine H O’Toole, Predrag Radivojac, Colbie Reed, Richard J Roberts, Dmitri Rodionov, Irina A Rodionova, Jeffrey D Rudolf, Lana Saleh, Gloria Sheynkman, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Paul D Thomas, Peter Uetz, David Vallenet, Erica Watson Carter, Peter R Weigele, Valerie Wood, Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Jin XuPublished in Database by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 202210.1093/database/baac062
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- 24.Author(s): Swetha SPublished in Technoarete Transactions on Advances in Data Science and Analytics by Technoarete Research and Development Association in 2022, page: 12-1710.36647/ttadsa/01.01.a003
- 25.Author(s): Stefanie Scheiper-Welling, Monika Tabunscik, Theresa E. Gross, Tina Jenewein, Britt M. Beckmann, Constanze Niess, Elise Gradhand, Cora Wunder, Peter M. Schneider, Markus A. Rothschild, Marcel A. Verhoff, Silke KaufersteinPublished in International Journal of Legal Medicine by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in 2022, page: 475-48210.1007/s00414-021-02764-z
- 26.Author(s): Oriol Bárcenas, Carlos Pintado-Grima, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, Felix Teufel, Henrik Nielsen, Salvador Ventura, Michał BurdukiewiczPublished in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal by Elsevier BV in 2022, page: 6526-653310.1016/j.csbj.2022.11.043
- 27.Author(s): Michael Bernhofer, Christian Dallago, Tim Karl, Venkata Satagopam, Michael Heinzinger, Maria Littmann, Tobias Olenyi, Jiajun Qiu, Konstantin Schütze, Guy Yachdav, Haim Ashkenazy, Nir Ben-Tal, Yana Bromberg, Tatyana Goldberg, Laszlo Kajan, Sean O’Donoghue, Chris Sander, Andrea Schafferhans, Avner Schlessinger, Gerrit Vriend, Milot Mirdita, Piotr Gawron, Wei Gu, Yohan Jarosz, Christophe Trefois, Martin Steinegger, Reinhard Schneider, Burkhard RostPublished in Nucleic Acids Research by Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2021, page: W535-W54010.1093/nar/gkab354
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