Entrez-AJAX: A RESTful API for Bioinformatics Web App Developers
Caution: Extreme bioinformatics nerdery follows, if you don’t know your AJAX from your JSON please ignore this post! When planning the new release of xBASE we needed the ability to launch searches from Entrez directly from the users’ browser. A common pattern for making web requests directly from the browser is to use AJAX. By [...]
Announcement: xBASE Annotation Service
We’re very pleased to announce the availability of the xBASE Annotation Service. This service is designed to produce annotation files from unfinished genome data, e.g. from 454 or Solexa de novo assemblies. The steps involved will be familiar to anyone who has used similar pipelines. Gene prediction is run on the uploaded sequence using Glimmer, [...]