One address, permanently citable, always current.
A DOI for your web service: a persistent link that adapts as research infrastructure moves.
Almost half of all scientific web tools change URL within five years. BioWeb.me gives your tool one short, memorable address that never breaks, because you control where it points.
of web services published in the NAR Web Server Issue 2003 were no longer reachable at their original URL. When a link dies, so does the citation, the reproducibility, and the user who clicked it.
How it works
Pick a name.
Choose a short, telling link like
bioweb.me/your-tool(English letters, numbers, and-).Point it anywhere.
Set the destination to your current server (academic/research use only).
Move freely.
When your tool changes host, update the target once. Every existing link, citation, and bookmark keeps working.
Why researchers use it
Permanent by design
Your link stays constant for the life of your tool, and beyond.
Deep links
Point straight to sub-pages, e.g.
bioweb.me/service/submit/go.php.Redirect statistics
See traffic over time, referring sites, and request origins for your own links.
Staging links
Create password-protected links for testing and development.
Archived for good
Links are preserved with the Internet Archive’s 301Works project.
Free
Free forever — but the servers cost €30/month to run. If BioWeb.me is useful to you, support it with a donation.
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Built by people who measured the problem
BioWeb.me grew out of research on URL decay in the life sciences, originally developed in the MLB Research Group at the Max Planck Society in Tübingen, Germany. See the study and our ten simple rules for building web services that last, then score your own service.