UniBioDicts: Unified access to Biological Dictionaries

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1065
• Publication Date: 2020-12-12T06:26:35Z
• Authors: John Zobolas; Vasundra Touré; Martin Kuiper; Steven Vercruysse
• Keywords: UniProt; Interface (matter); Biological database; Gateway (web page)

We present a set of software packages that provide uniform access to diverse biological vocabulary resources are instrumental for current biocuration efforts and tools. The Unified Biological Dictionaries (UniBioDicts or UBDs) single query-interface accessing the online API services leading data providers. Given search string, UBDs return list matching term, identifier metadata units from databases (e.g. UniProt), controlled vocabularies PSI-MI) ontologies GO, via BioPortal). This functionality can be connected input fields (user-interface components) offer autocomplete lookup these dictionaries. create unified gateway life science concepts, helping curators find annotation terms across (based on descriptive unambiguous identifiers), users retrieve right query terms.The available through npm code is in GitHub organisation UniBioDicts (https://github.com/UniBioDicts) under Affero GPL license.Supplementary at Bioinformatics online.