The MG-RAST API explorer: an on-ramp for RESTful query composition

Tobias Paczian, William L. Trimble, Wolfgang Gerlach, Travis Harrison, Andreas Wilke, Folker Meyer
2019 BMC Bioinformatics  
The MG-RAST API provides search capabilities and delivers organism and function data as well as raw or annotated sequence data via the web interface and its RESTful API. For casual users, however, RESTful APIs are hard to learn and work with. We created the graphical MG-RAST API explorer to help researchers more easily build and export API queries; understand the data abstractions and indices available in MG-RAST; and use the results presented in-browser for exploration, development, and
more » ... ng. The API explorer lowers the barrier to entry for occasional or first-time MG-RAST API users.
doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2993-0 pmid:31703549 pmcid:PMC6842160 fatcat:oz6agztua5avfpfbyjl3lorezy