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Oxford University Press (OUP), Bioinformatics, 1(31), p. 143-145

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu613

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The Ensembl REST API: Ensembl Data for Any Language

Journal article published in 2014 by Andrew Yates, Kathryn Beal, Stephen Keenan, William McLaren, Miguel Pignatelli, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Magali Ruffier, Kieron Taylor ORCID, Alessandro Vullo, Paul Flicek
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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 variant analysis independent of any specific programming language.