Rhea web services (BETA)

Please note that this is BETA software. You can use it freely at your own risk.
For any comments or suggestions, please send an e-mail to the Rhea developers.

Usage:

/rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction?q=query: Search for reactions, where query is the search term.
Ex: /rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction?q=caffeine
/rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction/format?q=query: Search for reactions in a concrete format, where format is one of the supported formats (see below) and query is the search term.
Ex: /rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction/cmlreact?q=caffeine
/rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction/format/id: Retrieve a concrete reaction for the given id in the given format.
Ex: /rhea/rest/1.0/ws/reaction/cmlreact/10280

Types of requests and responses
Request	Response format	Response MIME type	format	Notes
Searches	XML (schema here)	application/xml	If specified, either biopax2 or cmlreact.	Mandatory parameter `q`. Returns only identifiers of reactions with undefined direction, with links to the corresponding (bi)directional ones.
Entry (RXN)	RXN CTfile	chemical/x-mdl-rxnfile	rxn
Entry (BioPAX level 2)	BioPAX level 2	application/rdf+xml	biopax2
Entry (CMLReact)	CMLReact (schema here)	chemical/x-cml	cmlreact

Java client

There is a Java implementation of a client for Rhea web services. The source code can be checked out using subversion with the following command line:

svn co https://rhea-ebi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rhea-ebi/trunk/rhea-ws-client/ rhea-ws-client

and built using maven.