The Ensembl REST API: Ensembl Data for Any Language.

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu613

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The Ensembl REST API: Ensembl Data for Any Language.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 1 Jan 2015

Yates Andrew, Beal Kathryn, Keenan Stephen, McLaren William, Pignatelli Miguel, Ritchie Graham R S, Ruffier Magali, Taylor Kieron, Vullo Alessandro, Flicek Paul

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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...

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