title: BioGRID REST Service, BiogridPlugin2 and BioGRID WebGraph: new tools for access to interaction data at BioGRID.
abstract: The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) representational state transfer (REST) service allows full URL-based access to curated protein and genetic interaction data at the BioGRID database. Appending URL parameters allows filtering of data by various attributes including gene names and identifiers, PubMed ID and evidence type. We also describe two visualization tools that interface with the REST service, the BiogridPlugin2 for Cytoscape and the BioGRID WebGraph.
  
  
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  BioGRID data and applications are completely free for commercial and non-commercial use. http://webservice.thebiogrid.org/resources/interactions (REST Service), http://wiki.thebiogrid.org/doku.php/biogridrest(REST Service parameter list and help), http://webservice.thebiogrid.org/resources/application.wadl(REST Service WADL), http://thebiogrid.org/download.php (BiogridPlugin2, v2.1 download), http://wiki.thebiogrid.org/doku.php/biogridplugin2 (BiogridPlugin2 help) and http://tyerslab.bio.ed.ac.uk/tools/BioGRID_webgraph.php(BioGRID WebGraph).
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. andrew.winter@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wildenhain
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tyers
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface