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. 2019 Jul 2;47(W1):W636-W641.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz268.

The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019

Fábio Madeira  1 , Young Mi Park  1 , Joon Lee  1 , Nicola Buso  1 , Tamer Gur  1 , Nandana Madhusoodanan  1 , Prasad Basutkar  1 , Adrian R N Tivey  1 , Simon C Potter  1 , Robert D Finn  1 , Rodrigo Lopez  1
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The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019

Fábio Madeira et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

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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