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Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Web Server issue):W6-W10; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp302
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. suppl_2 W6-W10
© 2009 The Author(s)
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Web services at the European Bioinformatics Institute-2009

Hamish Mcwilliam*, Franck Valentin, Mickael Goujon, Weizhong Li, Menaka Narayanasamy, Jenny Martin, Teresa Miyar and Rodrigo Lopez

European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambdrige CB10 1SD, UK

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1223 492508; Fax: +44 1223 494468; Email: hpm{at}ebi.ac.uk

Received January 29, 2009. Revised March 30, 2009. Accepted April 16, 2009.

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been providing access to mainstream databases and tools in bioinformatics since 1997. In addition to the traditional web form based interfaces, APIs exist for core data resources such as EMBL-Bank, Ensembl, UniProt, InterPro, PDB and ArrayExpress. These APIs are based on Web Services (SOAP/REST) interfaces that allow users to systematically access databases and analytical tools. From the user's point of view, these Web Services provide the same functionality as the browser-based forms. However, using the APIs frees the user from web page constraints and are ideal for the analysis of large batches of data, performing text-mining tasks and the casual or systematic evaluation of mathematical models in regulatory networks. Furthermore, these services are widespread and easy to use; require no prior knowledge of the technology and no more than basic experience in programming. In the following we wish to inform of new and updated services as well as briefly describe planned developments to be made available during the course of 2009–2010.


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