{"id":70,"date":"2020-04-28T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:03:52","slug":"introduction-to-programmatic-access","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/introduction-to-programmatic-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to programmatic access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Biology has entered the digital age and it is now possible to access and analyse many types of data online. Using EMBL-EBI tools and resources you can share your data, perform complex queries, and analyse data in many different ways. You can&nbsp;BLAST&nbsp;nucleotide sequences, search the literature, look up&nbsp;variant&nbsp;data, learn about proteins, explore macromolecular molecules, and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way to make these kinds of bioinformatics tasks quicker and easier is to do them programmatically using&nbsp;web services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This webinar took place on 9th May 2017 and&nbsp;introduces the concept of web services and how you can use them to access the tools and data available at EMBL-EBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are we trying to do? (0:41)<\/li><li>Why consider programmatic access? (1:29)<\/li><li>How web services work (4:52)<\/li><li>How do you use web services (in practice)(13:56)<\/li><li>Clients and demo (17:35)<\/li><li>Tips and pitfalls (23:36)<\/li><li>Where to get help (31:56)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EMBL-EBI, programmatically: an introduction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/roC_Ms_cgOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can explore all of the EMBL-EBI&#8217;s tools, resources and databases on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">services page<\/a>. On the services page you will also find a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/Tools\/webservices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list of tools and resources that can be accessed programmatically<\/a>&nbsp;with links to the relevant help pages and documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need help with any of the tools and resources you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact us<\/a>&nbsp;or get in touch with resource helpdesk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can download the slides from this webinar&nbsp;here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2020\/08\/EMBL-EBI-programmatically-introduction-1.pdf\">EMBL EBI programmatically introduction webinar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2020\/08\/EMBL-EBI-programmatically-introduction-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology has entered the digital age and it is now possible to access and analyse many types of data online. Using EMBL-EBI tools and resources you can share your data, perform complex queries, and analyse data in many different ways. You can&nbsp;BLAST&nbsp;nucleotide sequences, search the literature, look up&nbsp;variant&nbsp;data, learn about proteins, explore macromolecular molecules, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/embl-ebi-programmatically\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}