InterMine: extensive web services for modern biology

@article{Kalderimis2014InterMineEW,
  title={InterMine: extensive web services for modern biology},
  author={Alexis Kalderimis and Rachel Lyne and Daniela Butano and Sergio Contrino and Mike Lyne and Joshua Heimbach and Fengyuan Hu and Richard N. Smith and Radek Stepan and Julie M. Sullivan and Gos Micklem},
  journal={Nucleic Acids Research},
  year={2014},
  volume={42},
  pages={W468 - W472}
}
InterMine (www.intermine.org) is a biological data warehousing system providing extensive automatically generated and configurable RESTful web services that underpin the web interface and can be re-used in many other applications: to find and filter data; export it in a flexible and structured way; to upload, use, manipulate and analyze lists; to provide services for flexible retrieval of sequence segments, and for other statistical and analysis tools. Here we describe these features and… 
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