A RESTful API for Accessing Microbial Community Data for MG-RAST

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Wilke, Andreas ^a,b   Bischof, Jared ^a,b   Harrison, Travis ^a,b   Brettin, Tom ^a   D'Souza, Mark ^a,b   Gerlach, Wolfgang ^a,b   Matthews, Hunter ^a,b   Paczian, Tobias ^a,b   Wilkening, Jared ^a,b   Glass, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Desai, Narayan ^a,b   Meyer, Folker ^a,b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); MICROORGANISMS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; APPLICATION PROGRAMMER INTERFACES; DATA RETRIEVAL; DATA SET; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; THIRD PARTIES; WEB SERVICE APPLICATIONS; WEB-BASED ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; APPLICATION PROGRAMMERS INTERFACE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; GENE SEQUENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; QUALITY CONTROL; BACTERIAL GENOME; DATA BASE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84922220803     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004008     Document Type: Article

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