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Finding relevant publications using the UniProt API and Python
An API provides a way to retrieve data programmatically from a database and can be a helpful tool to collect relevant information, for example publications, from a data resource.
The following tutorial, provided by Elena Speretta, Senior Scientific Database Curator at UniProt, shows how to find publications mentioning a 3D structure and protein interactions for the Amyloid-beta precursor protein, using the UniProt API and Python.
You can follow the tutorial on Google Colab.
If you like to learn more about programmatic access to EMBL-EBI data resources have a look at the online tutorial EMBL-EBI, programmatically.
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