The UniProt website API: facilitating programmatic access to protein knowledge

The UniProt REST API is a freely available, open-access resource that powers the UniProt.org website and gives users flexible programmatic interaction with protein knowledge data. It provides access to UniProtKB, UniRef, UniParc, Proteomes, GeneCentric, ARBA, UniRule, and the ID Mapping tool, along with supporting data and controlled vocabularies. Users can access the API with their favorite programming language and generate example code snippets to access the UniProt databases using the API documentation page (https://www.uniprot.org/api-documentation) in various languages. API results can be returned and downloaded in various formats. With an average of 303 million requests per month over the last year, the…

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  National Institutes of Health

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  Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
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  National Institute on Aging

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  National Human Genome Research Institute

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