API Access

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Overview:

By access to data on Tri©DB via the web API, users agree to the Terms of Use.

The API URLs are designed in an easy-access fashion:

http://www.biomeddb.org/api/<database>/<operation>?[parameters]

<database> = drug | target | disease | relation

Description:

database - refers to the data domains related to the information, such as drug.
operation - refers to an action to be performed on a database, such as get the list of all data.
parameters - include things such as the id of records.
'GET' is the only HTTP method for public access because of the read-only database.
Any of the following URLs will return the same simple JSON document.

Tri©DB API Operations

<database>: drug

http://www.biomeddb.org/api/drug/<operation>

<operation> = DrugSearch | ListAll | GetReference

Examples:

Displays the main attributes of the drugs, such as brand name, mechanism

Displays the data of all records related to the drug

Displays the top 10 literature related to target-disease-drug triples from PubMed

<database>: target

http://www.biomeddb.org/api/target/<operation>

<operation> = TargetSearch | ListAll | GetMutationText

Examples:

Displays the main attribute of the gene, such as the resistance drugs, evidences

Displays the data of all records related to the target

Display the all mutation data of the gene in target database

<database>: disease

http://www.biomeddb.org/api/disease/<operation>

<operation> = DiseaseSearch | ListAll | GetMutationText

Examples:

Displays the main attribute of the disease, such as disease alias, classification

Displays the data of all records related to the disease

Displays the mutation data of all records related to the disease