Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yates A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4271150 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yates Andrew A Beal Kathryn K Keenan Stephen S McLaren William W Pignatelli Miguel M Ritchie Graham R S GR Ruffier Magali M Taylor Kieron K Vullo Alessandro A Flicek Paul P
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20140917 1
<h4>Motivation</h4>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.<h4>Availabilit ...[more]