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Modeling and Imaging 3-Dimensional Collective Cell Invasion
Published on: December 7, 2011
Programmatic access to logical models in the Cell Collective modeling environment via a REST API
Bryan M Kowal1, Travis R Schreier1, Joseph T Dauer2
1Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Unlabelled:
Cell Collective (www.cellcollective.org) is a web-based interactive environment for constructing, simulating and analyzing logical models of biological systems. Herein, we present a Web service to access models, annotations, and simulation data in the Cell Collective platform through the Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API). The REST API provides a convenient method for obtaining Cell Collective data through almost any programming language. To ensure easy processing of the retrieved data, the request output from the API is available in a standard JSON format.
Availability And Implementation:
The Cell Collective REST API is freely available at http://thecellcollective.org/tccapi. All public models in Cell Collective are available through the REST API. For users interested in creating and accessing their own models through the REST API first need to create an account in Cell Collective (http://thecellcollective.org).
Contact:
thelikar2@unl.edu.
Supplementary Information:
Technical user documentation: https://goo.gl/U52GWo.
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