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{JASPAR RESTful API}

This API provides an easy-to-use REST web interface to query/retrieve matrix profile data from the latest version of the JASPAR database. The API comes with a human browsable interface and also a programmatic interface which return the results in eight different formats, including json, jsonp, jaspar, meme, transfac, pfm, yaml and bed.

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Citing JASPAR RESTful API

  • Khan, A. and Mathelier, A. JASPAR RESTful API: accessing JASPAR data from any programming language. Bioinformatics, 2017, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx804
  • Khan, A. et al. JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018; 46:D260–D266, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1126
  • Fornes O, Castro-Mondragon JA, Khan A, et al. JASPAR 2020: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz1001
  • Castro-Mondragon JA, Riudavets-Puig R, Rauluseviciute I, Berhanu Lemma R, Turchi L, Blanc-Mathieu R, Lucas J, Boddie P, Khan A, Manosalva Pérez N, Fornes O, Leung TY, Aguirre A, Hammal F, Schmelter D, Baranasic D, Ballester B, Sandelin A, Lenhard B, Vandepoele K, Wasserman WW, Parcy F, and Mathelier A JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Jan 7;50(D1):D165-D173.; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1113