Soaplab2 (or Soaplab) is a tool that can automatically generate and deploy Web Services on top of existing command-line analysis programs. It is especially well suited for applications with well described input and output parameters, such as EMBOSS (a package of Open Source software for sequence analysis). Soaplab allows integration of many applications within a single programming interface.

Soaplab can also interoperate with other Web Services and can create Web Services on top of existing web resources (e.g. extracting data from a third-party web page and providing its data as a Web Service) - a sub-project called Gowlab.