Table 2.

A representative sample of BioCatalogue REST API methods, accessible via http://www.biocatalogue.org/

Endpoint	Description
/search.xml?q={query}	Search by keyword to retrieve relevant services, SOAP operations, service providers, users and registries.
/services.xml	Services index.
/services/filters.xml	Filter services based on categories, tags, countries, submitters and service providers.
/services/{id}.xml	Details about a specific service.
/services/{id}/monitoring.xml	Monitoring details for a specific service.
/services/{id}/annotations.xml	Annotations on a specific service.a
/service_providers.xml	Service providers index.
/service_providers/{id}.xml	Details about a specific service provider.
/users.xml	Users index.
/users/{id}.xml	Details about a specific user (aka member).
/users/{id}/annotations_by.xml	Annotations by a specific user.a
/registries.xml	Registries index (lists registries from which BioCatalogue has sourced data).
/annotations.xml	Annotations index.a
/soap_services/{id}/operations.xml	SOAP operations on a specific SOAP service.
/soap_operations.xml	SOAP operations index.
/soap_operations/filters.xml	Filters that can be applied to the SOAP operations index. These include filters for tags on inputs and outputs.
/soap_operations/{id}.xml	Details about a specific SOAP operation.
/soap_operations/{id}/annotations.xml	Annotations on a specific SOAP operation.a
/soap_inputs/{id}.xml	Details about a specific SOAP input.
/soap_inputs/{id}/annotations.xml	Annotations on a specific SOAP input.a
/soap_outputs/{id}/annotations.xml	Annotations on a specific SOAP output.a
/rest_services/{id}.xml	Details about a specific REST service.
/rest_services/{id}/annotations.xml	Annotations on a specific REST service.a
/service_tests/{id}.xml	Details about a specific service test.
/service_tests/{id}/results.xml	Monitoring test results for a specific service test.
/test_results.xml	Monitoring test results index.
/test_results/{id}.xml	Details about a specific monitoring test result.
/categories.xml	Service categories index.
/categories/{id}.xml	Details about a specific service category.

^aOutput also available in JSON format.

Parameters enclosed in braces should be replaced by the appropriate search term or identifier. For example http://www.biocatalogue.org/search.xml?q=protein returns the XML description of all services containing the keyword ‘protein’. A full list of methods, with documentation is available from http://apidocs.biocatalogue.org/.