Abstract
Efficient tools for data management and integration are essential for many aspects of high-throughput biology. In particular, annotations of genes and human genetic variants are commonly used but highly fragmented across many resources. Here, we describe MyGene.info and MyVariant.info, high-performance web services for querying gene and variant annotation information. These web services are currently accessed more than three million times permonth. They also demonstrate a generalizable cloud-based model for organizing and querying biological annotation information. MyGene.info and MyVariant.info are provided as high-performance web services, accessible at http://mygene.infoand http://myvariant.info. Both are offered free of charge to the research community.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 91 |
Journal | Genome biology |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 6 2016 |
Keywords
- API
- Annotation
- Cloud
- Database
- Gene
- Repository
- Variant