[ensembl-dev] EnsEMBL SOAP / Rest services?

Jan Vogel jan.vogel at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 20:47:22 BST 2011


Cool. Did you guys use catalyst to implement this, or sloth ? and is the code open-source ? 
Jan

On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jared Nedzel wrote:

> Glenn:
> 
> We created a REST interface when we developed GeneCruiser, which uses Ensembl as its data store.  Unfortunately, it has been difficult for us to keep abreast of the frequent Ensembl databaes schema updates.
> 
> We have documented our current REST-style interface here:
> 
> http://genecruiser.broadinstitute.org/genecruiser3/pages/GeneCruiser3WebServices.pdf
> 
> It would be great if Ensembl would consider doing something similar.  The Ensembl Perl API just isn't a viable option for us.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jared Nedzel
> Broad Institute
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Glenn Proctor <glenn at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dan
> 
> Not at the moment, but a REST interface (probably a wrapper around the
> Perl API) is something that we're actively considering.
> 
> We're interested in possible use-cases; can you give us some more
> details on what you want to do?
> 
> Glenn.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there any SOAP or REST services for the EnsEMBL APIs?
> >
> > I'm thinking to put something simple together to let us access
> > variation data from a JavaScript application, but I thought I'd email
> > and ask what has been done in this direction before launching out.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dan.
> >
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