A demo of BridgeWebservice is running at  http://webservice.bridgedb.org/ (which redirects here if no arguments are provided). This service is only a DEMO. For any serious use,  host your own webservice, or use one of the many other mapping services that can be accessed through BridgeDb, such as BridgeDerby, biomart, synergizer, CRONOS, PICR, etc.

Try these!

Generic Patterns:

  • /{organism}/xrefs/{system}/{id}[?dataSource={dsName}]
  • /{organism}/xrefExists/{system}/{id}
  • /{organism}/search/{query}[?limit={limit}]
  • /{organism}/properties
  • /{organism}/sourceDataSources
  • /{organism}/targetDataSources
  • /{organism}/isFreeSearchSupported
  • /{organism}/isMappingSupported/{source_system}/{target_system}
  • /{organism}/attributes/{system}/{id}[?attrName={attrName}]
  • /{organism}/attributeSearch/{query}?[limit={limit}][&attrName={attrName}]
  • /{organism}/attributeSet
  • /{organism}/backPageText/{system}/{id}

Supported Species:

The recommended way to get the list of available species is through  http://webservice.bridgedb.org/contents. A GET request on that URL returns a tab-delimited list with two columns. One column contains the English name, the other column the scientific name. You can access a species database using either the English or the latin name, so both  http://webservice.bridgedb.org/Human/xrefs/L/3643 and  http://webservice.bridgedb.org/Homo%20sapiens/xrefs/L/3643 work the same.

System Codes:

A complete table of supported data sources and their corresponding system codes can be downloaded here: source:trunk/org.bridgedb.bio/resources/org/bridgedb/bio/datasources.txt This is a tab-delimited text file that can be opened in Excel.

You can also run this service on your local computer, see here for instructions:  http://bridgedb.org/wiki/LocalService