Scriptable access to the Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequence and other ACEDB databases
Scriptable access to the Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequence and other ACEDB databases
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DOI：
10.1101/gr.8.12.1308
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发表时间：
1998-12-01
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7
通讯作者：
Thierry-Mieg, J
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作者：
Stein, LD;Thierry-Mieg, J
世界上的许多基因组数据都可以通过网络接口访问的网络数据库提供给社区。尽管这种模式提供了浏览级访问，并极大地促进了数据库之间的链接，但它没有提供任何方便的机制来以编程方式从不同的数据库中获取和整合数据。我们创建了一个库和一个名为AcePerl的应用程序编程接口（API），它提供了从Perl编程语言对ACEDB数据库的简单、直接的访问。有了这个库，程序员和精通计算机的生物学家可以编写软件来对本地和远程ACEDB数据库进行复杂的查询，检索数据，整合结果，并将数据对象从一个数据库移动到另一个数据库。此外，运行在AcePerl之上的一组Web脚本提供了对任何本地或远程ACEDB数据库的基于Web的浏览。AcePerl和AceBrowser Web浏览器在Unix系统上运行，并且在允许不受限制地使用和重新分发的许可证下可用。这两个软件包都可以从URL http://stein.cshl.org/AcePerl下载。AcePerl的Microsoft Windows端口正在规划阶段。
Much of the world's genomic data are available to the community through networked databases that are accessed via Web interfaces. Although this paradigm provides browse-level access and has greatly facilitated linking between databases, it does not provide any convenient mechanism for programmatically fetching and intergrating data from diverse databases. We have created a library and an application programming interface (API) named AcePerl that provides simple, direct access to ACEDB databases from the Perl programming language. With this library, programmers and computer-savvy biologists can write software to pose complex queries on local and remote ACEDB databases, retrieve the data, integrate the results, and move data objects from one database to another. In addition, a set of Web scripts running on top of AcePerl provides Web-based browsing of any local or remote ACEDB database. AcePerl and the AceBrowser Web browser run on Unix systems and are available under a license that allows for unrestricted use and redistribution. Both packages can be downloaded from URL http://stein.cshl.org/AcePerl. A Microsoft Windows port of AcePerl is in the planning stages.