MG-RAST API explorer

MG-RAST API explorer facilitates construction and export of queries to the MG-RAST RESTful API to retrieve organism, functional, and sequence data for metagenomic analyses.

Key Features:

• API Query Construction: Constructs and exports programmatic queries to the MG-RAST RESTful API for retrieval of MG-RAST data products.
• Taxonomic and Functional Retrieval: Retrieves organism (taxonomic) and function (functional profile) data and associated abundance information from MG-RAST.
• Sequence Data Access: Obtains raw and annotated sequence data and associated annotations via the MG-RAST API.
• Support for Sample Types: Accesses data and results for shotgun metagenomes, amplicon metagenomes, and metatranscriptomes.
• MG-RAST Analysis Outputs: Retrieves MG-RAST-produced outputs including quality control metrics, automated annotation results, and comparative analysis outputs.

Scientific Applications:

• Comparative Metagenomics: Retrieve profiles and outputs across multiple samples for comparative analyses of microbial communities.
• Functional and Organismal Diversity Assessment: Obtain functional and taxonomic profiles to analyze diversity across environments.
• Sequence Annotation Retrieval: Access automated sequence annotations produced by MG-RAST for downstream analysis.
• Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Data Access: Acquire raw and annotated sequence datasets from shotgun, amplicon, and metatranscriptome studies for further computational analysis.

Methodology:

Builds and exports queries to the MG-RAST RESTful API and retrieves taxonomic, functional, raw and annotated sequence data plus MG-RAST outputs such as quality control metrics, automated annotations, and comparative analysis results.