Cross-linking BioThings APIs through JSON-LD to facilitate knowledge exploration

Abstract Background Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now widely used to distribute biological data. And many popular biological APIs developed by many different research teams have adopted Javascript Object Notation (JSON) as their primary data format. While usage of a common data forma...

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Published in:	BMC Bioinformatics
Main Authors:	Jiwen Xin, Cyrus Afrasiabi, Sebastien Lelong, Julee Adesara, Ginger Tsueng, Andrew I. Su, Chunlei Wu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2018-02-01
Subjects:	API JSON-LD API interoperability Knowledge discovery Semantic web Linking APIs
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2041-5