BioThings SDK: a toolkit for building high-performance data APIs in biomedical research.

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Summary

To meet the increased need of making biomedical resources more accessible and reusable, Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or web services have become a common way to disseminate knowledge sources. The BioThings APIs are a collection of high-performance, scalable, annotation as a service APIs that automate the integration of biological annotations from disparate data sources. This collection of APIs currently includes MyGene.info, MyVariant.info and MyChem.info for integrating annotations on genes, variants and chemical compounds, respectively. These APIs are used by both individual researchers and application developers to simplify the process of annotation retrieval and identifier mapping. Here, we describe the BioThings Software Development Kit (SDK), a genera

SUBMITTER: Lelong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8963279 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature