RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 JASPAR RESTful API: accessing JASPAR data from any programming language
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 160184
DO 10.1101/160184
A1 Aziz Khan
A1 Anthony Mathelier
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/12/14/160184.abstract
AB JASPAR is a widely used open-access database of curated, non-redundant transcription factor binding profiles. Currently, data from JASPAR can be retrieved as flat files or by using programming language-specific interfaces. Here, we present a programming language-independent application programming interface (API) to access JASPAR data using the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture. The REST API enables programmatic access to JASPAR by most programming languages and returns data in seven widely used formats. Further, it provides an endpoint to infer the TF binding profile(s) likely bound by a given DNA binding domain protein sequence. Additionaly, it provides an interactive browsable interface for bioinformatics tool developers. The REST API is implemented in Python using the Django REST Framework. It is accessible at http://jaspar.genereg.net/api/ and the source code is freeiy available at https://bitbucket.org/CBGR/jaspar under GPL v3 iicense.