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. 2009 Jul;37(Web Server issue):W23-7.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp265. Epub 2009 May 6.

BioMart Central Portal--unified access to biological data

Syed Haider  1 , Benoit Ballester, Damian Smedley, Junjun Zhang, Peter Rice, Arek Kasprzyk
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BioMart Central Portal--unified access to biological data

Syed Haider et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jul.

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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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
List of databases available through BioMart Central Portal (March 2009).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The schematic representation of BioMart Central Portal.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
(a) SOAP request envelope representing data federation between Ensembl Homo Sapiens (Sanger-UK) and Reactome pathway (CSHL-US) datasets. The query finds the alleles in genes involved in the regulation of DNA replication (b) SOAP response envelope for the query shown in figure 3a.
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