Fig. 1
From: PhenoImageShare: an image annotation and query infrastructure
PhIS architecture. The different software components part of the PhIS platform. The arrows describe the collaboration of the components and the direction of the function calls. For example the UI uses the methods provided by the IQS but the IQS alone cannot trigger any actions in the UI. The annotation submission API needs to be secured in order to keep the integrity of the database but the query API is not restricted