5/12/2014
cropontology.org/api
23andMe
https://api.23andme.com/docs/reference/
This is very well documented.
openSNP
https://opensnp.org/faq#api
They won an award in 2011 from PLoS/Mendeley for best app for open research
Here are some examples of larger projects with api interface
iPlant
http://agaveapi.co/
Agave api for running apps in the cloud
Ensembl
http://useast.ensembl.org/info/docs/api/index.html
5/1/2014
Webex by YarcData "Data Integration in Life Science"
use data graph representation instead of relational database
graph representation uses RDF
integrates data from multiple sources
their software (Urika) requires super computer, they are division of Cray
showed example of going from SNP to disease to drug
this may apply to us to bring data from RDF sources
can use own hardware if under 2 billion triples