Documentation for BioThings Explorer¶
Introduction¶
BioThings Explorer integrates a variety of biomedical API resources and make them available through a central access point. By addressing the data interoperability issue across different APIs through SmartAPI and JSON-LD technologies, BioThings Explorer allows users to perform federated queries across multiple different databases as well as conduct linked biomedical knowledge discovery, e.g. find all drugs which interacts with proteins produces by genes involved in a specific biological pathway.
User’s Guide¶
The main documentation of this site could be organized into the following sections.
Requirements¶
- python >=2.6 (including python3)
- requests (install using “pip install requests”)
Installation¶
Either install from source, like:
git clone https://github.com/biothings/biothings_explorer.git
cd biothings_explorer
python setup.py install
or use pip, like:
pip install biothings_explorer
or directly from our repository, like:
pip install git+https://github.com/biothings/biothings_explorer.git#egg=biothings_explorer