The Ensembl REST API: Ensembl Data for Any Language.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25236461.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu613 and PMC identifier 4271150.
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Abstract
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. The Ensembl REST API can be accessed at http://rest.ensembl.org and source code is freely available under an Apache 2.0 license from http://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-rest.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology
- Databases, Factual
- Programming Languages
- Software