title: Programmatic access to logical models in the Cell Collective modeling environment via a REST API.
abstract: Cell Collective (www.cellcollective.org) is a web-based interactive environment for constructing, simulating and analyzing logical models of biological systems. Herein, we present a Web service to access models, annotations, and simulation data in the Cell Collective platform through the Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). The REST API provides a convenient method for obtaining Cell Collective data through almost any programming language. To ensure easy processing of the retrieved data, the request output from the API is available in a standard JSON format.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Cell Collective REST API is freely available at http://thecellcollective.org/tccapi. All public models in Cell Collective are available through the REST API. For users interested in creating and accessing their own models through the REST API first need to create an account in Cell Collective (http://thecellcollective.org).
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  thelikar2@unl.edu.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Technical user documentation: https://goo.gl/U52GWo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Bryan M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Kowal
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Travis R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Schreier
authors.affiliation: School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Dauer
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. Electronic address: thelikar2@unl.edu.
authors.forename: Tomáš
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Helikar
mesh_terms: D002477:Cells; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008954:Models, Biological; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology
keywords: Boolean models; Logical models; REST API; Systems biology