Difference between revisions of "Registry API"

Revision as of 19:26, 6 April 2010

The information in the Registry is being made available to software tools developers through a series of API's (Application Programming Interface). These interfaces will change with time.

DAS - Distributed Annotation System

"The distributed annotation system (DAS) is a client-server system in which a single client integrates information from multiple servers. It allows a single machine to gather up genome annotation information from multiple distant web sites, collate the information, and display it to the user in a single view. Little coordination is needed among the various information providers." - Wikipedia

FASTA Formatted Sequences

We will provide a daily update of part sequences, types, subparts, status, and short description for each part and for all parts. Go to https://parts.igem.org/fasta/parts/BBa_C0040 (substitute our desired part name for BBa_C0040) and you will receive a FASTA formatted file with the part's sequence. The header line has this format:

'>'[Part name] [First character of status] [Part Id Number] [Part type] [Short description]

Note: the short description has unusual characters converted to their two-digit hex value.

You can also get all of the parts in a single download (about 30 megabytes) as https://parts.igem.org/fasta/parts/All_Parts.

We are not yet updating these files on a daily basis. -- Randy May 30, 2009

POINT-IN-TIME DATABASE DUMP

We now have a point-in-time database dump of the parts as qzipped XML files.

All of the database parts information (including sequences and features): Download

A subset of the part information and the number of parts using this part: Download