Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on April 4, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(10):1321-1322; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn122
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UniProtJAPI: a remote API for accessing UniProt data
The European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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Summary: Programmatic access to the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is essential for many bioinformatics applications dealing with protein data. We have created a Java library named UniProtJAPI, which facilitates the integration of UniProt data into Java-based software applications. The library supports queries and similarity searches that return UniProtKB entries in the form of Java objects. These objects contain functional annotations or sequence information associated with a UniProt entry. Here, we briefly describe the UniProtJAPI and demonstrate its usage.
Availability: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/remotingAPI
Contact: spatient{at}ebi.ac.uk
Associate Editor: Martin Bishop
Received on December 6, 2007; revised on April 1, 2008; accepted on April 3, 2008