Platform Interfaces & User Interaction

The LEXIS Platform exposes its entities through graphical and programmatic interfaces.

The LEXIS Platform Portal provides interactive access to:

• projects;

• datasets;

• computational resources;

• applications;

• workflows;

• workflow executions and results.

The HTTP APIs expose the same platform concepts for integration with external applications and automation.

Client libraries, including Python-oriented interfaces, provide higher-level access to these APIs.

For application developers, the preferred interaction model is:

   Client Application
           |
           v
   LEXIS Platform API
           |
           v
    Platform Entity
           |
           v
LEXIS Platform Services
           |
           v
Provider Infrastructure

rather than direct integration with every individual HPC or storage provider.

The Web Portal and APIs operate on the same underlying platform model. A project, dataset, resource, or workflow created through one interface is therefore the same platform entity accessed through another interface.