Table 6 Use cases of the application programming interface for bioinformaticians

In R, parse a set of tab-delimited Marker, Genotype and Trait files and load them into the database (R/API)

In R, retrieve all Traits, Markers, expression Data, and genotype Data from an investigation as data matrices, before QTL mapping with MetaNetwork (R/API)

In Java, retrieve a list of QTL profile correlation Data to show them as a regulatory network graph (J/API)

In Java, customize generated file readers to load specific file formats (J/API)

In Taverna, retrieve Genes from XGAP to find pathway information in KEGG (WS/API)

In Python, retrieve a list of QTL mapping Data using a hyperlink to XGAP (HTTP/API)