Difference between revisions of "Web Services REST API"

Revision as of 16:55, 14 April 2014

CoGe's web services API let's you incorporate CoGe's database of organisms, genomes, and data sets into your web site or pipeline.

Here is our draft API specification document:
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1GXOPIVvyTwoGR2IRjDNmdd2nj_6d8db7jx9hG8RxTDc

Below are some examples queries ...

Organism Search

curl http://genomevolution.org/coge/api/v1/organisms/search/col-0
{
   "organisms":
      [
         {
            "id": "1",
            "name": "Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 (thale cress)",    
            "description": "Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; rosids; eurosids II; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Arabidopsis"
         }
      ]
}

Organism Fetch

curl http://genomevolution.org/coge/api/v1/organisms/1
{
   "id": 1,
   "name": "Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 (thale cress)",
   "description": "Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; rosids; eurosids II; Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Arabidopsis"
   “genomes” : [ 16911, ... ]
}

Genome Fetch

curl http://genomevolution.org/coge/api/v1/genomes/16911
{
   "id": 16911
   "name": "",
   "description": "",
   "version": "10.02",
   "link": "",
   "restricted": false,
   "sequence_type": {
      "name": "unmasked",
      "description": "unmasked sequence data"
   },
   "experiments": [31,32,33, ...],
   "metadata": [],
}