Using EMBL‐EBI Services via Web Interface and Programmatically via Web Services. Issue 1 (30th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Madeira, Fábio; Madhusoodanan, Nandana; Lee, Joon; Tivey, Adrian R.N.; Lopez, Rodrigo
• Editors: Baxevanis, Andreas D.; Petsko, Gregory A.; Stein, Lincoln D.; Stormo, Gary D.
• Is Part Of: Current protocols in bioinformatics. Volume 66:Issue 1(2019)
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• Publication Date: 2019-04-30
• Subjects: bioinformatics tools -- bioinformatics resources -- programmatic access -- REST -- SOAP -- web services -- workflows; Bioinformatics -- Laboratory manuals; Nucleotide sequence -- Laboratory manuals; Amino acid sequence -- Laboratory manuals; Base Sequence; Amino Acid Sequence; Computational Biology -- methods; Databases, Genetic; Proteins -- analysis; Sequence Analysis -- methods; Sequence Homology; Amino acid sequence; Bioinformatics; Nucleotide sequence; Laboratory Manuals; Laboratory manuals; 570.285
• DOI: 10.1002/cpbi.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1934-3396

Abstract

Abstract: The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL‐EBI) provides access to a wide range of core databases and analysis tools that are of key importance in bioinformatics. As well as providing web interfaces to these resources, web services are available using REST and SOAP protocols that enable programmatic access and allow their integration into other applications and analytical workflows and pipelines. This article describes the various options available to researchers and bioinformaticians who would like to use our resources via the web interface employing RESTful web service clients provided in Perl, Python, and Java, or would like to use Docker containers to integrate the resources into analysis pipelines and workflows. © 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.