title: UniProtJAPI: a remote API for accessing UniProt data.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. spatient@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patient
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wieser
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleen
authors.forename: Ernst
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kretschmann
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jesus Martin
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Apweiler
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins