Web Services REST API

CoGe's Application Programming Interface:

There are two main ways a programmer can interact with CoGe:

1. Through the web pages via URLs
2. Through CoGe's database's API

Linking to CoGe

Each web application of CoGe is designed for a particular task, and provides links to other web applications in CoGe. This is how CoGe's Open-ended Analysis Network works. To get information on how to link to a particular web application, please see that application's wiki. If the information you are seeking is not immediately apparent, please feel free to e-mail Eric Lyons and for help.

CoGe's database's API

We are currently developing public web services for accessing and loading data in CoGe!

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

The new services won't be available for a few more weeks, but here are some examples of how they will work ...

Organism Search

curl http://genomevolution.org/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/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/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": [],
}