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Abstract The EMBL-EBI provides free access to popular bioinformatics sequence analysis applications as well as to a full-featured text search engine with powerful cross-referencing and data retrieval capabilities. Access to these services is provided via user-friendly web interfaces and via established RESTful and SOAP Web Services APIs (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/seqdb/confluence/display/JDSAT/EMBL-EBI+Web+Services+APIs+-+Data+Retrieval). Both systems have been developed with the same core principles that allow them to integrate an ever-increasing volume of biological data, making them an integral part of many popular data resources provided at the EMBL-EBI. Here, we describe the latest improvements made to the frameworks which enhance the interconnectivity between public EMBL-EBI resources and ultimately enhance biological data discoverability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

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DiscoverabilityInteroperabilityWorld Wide WebComputer scienceInformation retrievalSOAPDatabaseWeb service

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2019
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article
Volume
47
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W1
Pages
W636-W641
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4495
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Fábio Madeira, Young Mi Park, Joon Lee et al. (2019). The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019. Nucleic Acids Research , 47 (W1) , W636-W641. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz268

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10.1093/nar/gkz268