The EMBL-EBI Search and Sequence Analysis Tools APIs in 2019

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2019 Apr 13

PMID 30976793

Citations 2194

Authors

Fabio Madeira

Young Mi Park

Joon Lee

Nicola Buso

Tamer Gur

Nandana Madhusoodanan

Prasad Basutkar

Adrian R N Tivey

Simon C Potter

Robert D Finn

Rodrigo Lopez

Affiliations

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Abstract

The EMBL-EBI provides free access to popular bioinformatics sequence analysis applications as well as to a full-featured text search engine with powerful cross-referencing and data retrieval capabilities. Access to these services is provided via user-friendly web interfaces and via established RESTful and SOAP Web Services APIs (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/seqdb/confluence/display/JDSAT/EMBL-EBI+Web+Services+APIs+-+Data+Retrieval). Both systems have been developed with the same core principles that allow them to integrate an ever-increasing volume of biological data, making them an integral part of many popular data resources provided at the EMBL-EBI. Here, we describe the latest improvements made to the frameworks which enhance the interconnectivity between public EMBL-EBI resources and ultimately enhance biological data discoverability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

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