title: Unipept web services for metaproteomics analysis.
abstract: Unipept is an open source web application that is designed for metaproteomics analysis with a focus on interactive datavisualization. It is underpinned by a fast index built from UniProtKB and the NCBI taxonomy that enables quick retrieval of all UniProt entries in which a given tryptic peptide occurs. Unipept version 2.4 introduced web services that provide programmatic access to the metaproteomics analysis features. This enables integration of Unipept functionality in custom applications and data processing pipelines.
  
  
  
  The web services are freely available at http://api.unipept.ugent.be and are open sourced under the MIT license.
  
  
  
  Unipept@ugent.be
  
  
  
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mesuere
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
authors.forename: Toon
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van der Jeugt
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Protein Biochemistry and Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Devreese
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Microbiology Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dawyndt
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D055432:Metabolomics; D010455:Peptides; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides