The Ensembl REST API: Ensembl Data for Any Language

被引:113
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作者
Yates, Andrew [1 ]
Beal, Kathryn [1 ]
Keenan, Stephen [1 ]
McLaren, William [1 ]
Pignatelli, Miguel [1 ]
Ritchie, Graham R. S. [1 ,2 ]
Ruffier, Magali [1 ]
Taylor, Kieron [1 ]
Vullo, Alessandro [1 ]
Flicek, Paul [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] European Bioinformat Inst, European Mol Biol Lab, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
[2] Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, Cambridge CB10 1SA, England
基金
英国惠康基金;
关键词
BIOLOGY;
D O I
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu613
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Motivation: We present a Web service to access Ensembl data using Representational State Transfer (REST). The Ensembl REST server enables the easy retrieval of a wide range of Ensembl data by most programming languages, using standard formats such as JSON and FASTA while minimizing client work. We also introduce bindings to the popular Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor tool permitting large-scale programmatic variant analysis independent of any specific programming language.
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页码:143 / 145
页数:3
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