BioMart Central Portal--unified access to biological data.
BioMart Central Portal (www.biomart.org) offers a one-stop shop solution to access a wide array of biological databases. These include major biomolecular sequence, pathway and annotation databases such as Ensembl, Uniprot, Reactome, HGNC, Wormbase and PRIDE; for a complete list, visit, http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview. Moreover, the web server features seamless data federation making cross querying of these data sources in a user friendly and unified way. The web server not only provides access through a web interface (MartView), it also supports programmatic access through a Perl API as well as RESTful and SOAP oriented web services. The website is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement.
Haider
Syed
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EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK.
Ballester
Benoit
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Smedley
Damian
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Zhang
Junjun
J
Rice
Peter
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Kasprzyk
Arek
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D001695:Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface