Welcome to BridgeDb
BridgeDb is an id mapping framework for bioinformatics applications.
BridgeDb lets you add the following capabilities quickly and easily:
- translate identifiers from one system to another
- search references by id or symbol
- link out to online information for an identifier
BridgeDb is not tied to a specific source of mapping information. Instead it provides an abstraction layer so you can switch easily between flat files, relational databases and several different web services.
Developer documentation
- Overview for developers - including many code examples. Start here!
- DownloadBridgeDb
- CompilingBridgeDb
- Source code: http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/bridgedb/
- Java API docs: http://www.bridgedb.org/apidoc/
- Non-Java REST interface
- How to embed BridgeDb with non-Java apps
- Overview of the many ways you can use BridgeDb
- A note on release cycles and API stability
Applications making use of BridgeDb
- PathVisio pathway analysis tool
- WikiPathways
- CyThesaurus Cytoscape plugin
- NetworkMerge Cytoscape plugin
- BatchMapper, a command line tool
The mapping services behind BridgeDb
- BridgeDerby - a relational database service in the form of a single portable file
- BridgeWebservice
- PICR web service
- EnsMart web service (and other BioMarts)
- Synergizer web service
- CRONOS web service?
- FlatFiles
