BioMart Central Portal—unified access to biological data

Open Access

6 May 2009

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research

Vol. 37 (suppl_2) , W23-W27
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp265

Abstract

BioMart Central Portal (www.biomart.org) offers a one-stop shop solution to access a wide array of biological databases. These include major biomolecular sequence, pathway and annotation databases such as Ensembl, Uniprot, Reactome, HGNC, Wormbase and PRIDE; for a complete list, visit, http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview. Moreover, the web server features seamless data federation making cross querying of these data sources in a user friendly and unified way. The web server not only provides access through a web interface (MartView), it also supports programmatic access through a Perl API as well as RESTful and SOAP oriented web services. The website is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement.

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