Programmatic access to logical models in the Cell Collective modeling environment via a REST API

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• 作者：Bryan M. Kowal^a ; Travis R. Schreier^a ; Joseph T. Dauer^b ; Tomá ; &scaron ; Helikar^a ; ^{thelikar2@unl.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Logical models ; Boolean models ; REST API ; Systems biology
• 刊名：Biosystems
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：139
• 期：Complete
• 页码：12-16
• 全文大小：1559 K

文摘

Cell Collective (www.cellcollective.org) is a web-based interactive environment for constructing, simulating and analyzing logical models of biological systems. Herein, we present a Web service to access models, annotations, and simulation data in the Cell Collective platform through the Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). The REST API provides a convenient method for obtaining Cell Collective data through almost any programming language. To ensure easy processing of the retrieved data, the request output from the API is available in a standard JSON format.

Availability and implementation

The Cell Collective REST API is freely available at http://thecellcollective.org/tccapi. All public models in Cell Collective are available through the REST API. For users interested in creating and accessing their own models through the REST API first need to create an account in Cell Collective (http://thecellcollective.org).

Contact

thelikar2@unl.edu.

Supplementary information

Technical user documentation: https://goo.gl/U52GWo.