DAVID-WS（网络服务）被开发出来，使用户完成任务无需进行人工交互，而是编程接入DAVID，经由状态网络服务实现自动化。
DAVID-WS (web service) has been developed to automate user tasks by providing stateful web services to access DAVID programmatically without the need for human interactions. [1]
DAVID-WS通过保留一个用户在一次查询会话中的状态相关的操作输入，使这些输入能在用户该次会话接下来的操作中被获取，从而达到状态化。用户可以增添基因列表，改变分析背景总体，选择物种和种类，重置数据分析的功能参数，在一次会话中调用所有工具以及按照希望规范输出。
DAVID-WS is made stateful by keeping the state-related input of a user operation in a session context that can be accessed by subsequent user operations within the same session. Users can add lists, change background populations, select species and categories and reset functional parameters for data analysis, as well as query all tools within the same session and format output as desired. [1]
[1] Jiao, X., Sherman, B.T., Huang da, W., Stephens, R., Baseler, M.W., Lane, H.C., and Lempicki, R.A. (2012). DAVID-WS: a stateful web service to facilitate gene/protein list analysis. Bioinformatics 28, 1805-1806.