BioServices: a common Python package to access biological Web Services programmatically.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24064416.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt547 and PMC identifier 3842755.
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Abstract
Web interfaces provide access to numerous biological databases. Many can be accessed to in a programmatic way thanks to Web Services. Building applications that combine several of them would benefit from a single framework. BioServices is a comprehensive Python framework that provides programmatic access to major bioinformatics Web Services (e.g. KEGG, UniProt, BioModels, ChEMBLdb). Wrapping additional Web Services based either on Representational State Transfer or Simple Object Access Protocol/Web Services Description Language technologies is eased by the usage of object-oriented programming. BioServices releases and documentation are available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bioservices under a GPL-v3 license.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology
- Information Storage and Retrieval
- Internet
- Programming Languages
- Software