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The goal of the GIANT API project is to allow programmatic access to GIANT computational services such as NetWAS and tissue-specific functional gene networks. We offer access to these services through a REST API, which is implemented using the Django REST Framework (DRF). The API can be invoked using a web browser, which utilizes the Web API feature of DRF; standard terminal tools such as cURL; or wrapper libraries which allow API calls to be made from other programming languages such as Python. The API can also be used as a data source for visualization tools, which may include standalone apps or website components.

Resources

• API Reference describes all API endpoints, options, and parameters.
• Examples page contains short demonstrations of how to make API calls.
• Tutorials guide the user through more detailed examples of API use.
  • NetWAS Guide
  • NetWAS Guide for Python

References

1. Greene CS*, Krishnan A*, Wong AK*, Ricciotti E, Zelaya RA, Himmelstein DS, Zhang R, Hartmann BM, Zaslavsky E, Sealfon SC, Chasman DI, FitzGerald GA, Dolinski K, Grosser T, Troyanskaya OG. (2015). Understanding multicellular function and disease with human tissue-specific networks. Nature Genetics. 10.1038/ng.3259w.
2. GIANT website
3. NetWAS website