BioThings APIs

We build a collection of high-performance biological APIs

BioThings SDK

A Software Developement Kit to turn a data file to an API


See the tutorial and the docs (in-progres)

SmartAPI

Build interoperability across APIs

What's new

Happy Halloween

In case you missed the paper on how JSON-LD can be used to link MyGene.info and other BioThings...

Trick or Treat!

Don't let the use of outdated variant annotations come back and bite you in the face!

Boo!

Fragmented data in different formats can be quite a nightmare--fortunately there are BioThings APIs

Upcoming Cancer Variant Interpretation Hackathon and Curation Jamboree

The CIViC (Clinical Interpretations of Variants in Cancer) Project is one of the many data...

MyVariant gets bigger with the June 2018 release

The late June data release almost doubles the number of variants available through...

The New and Improved BioThings Website

Unless you're viewing this post from an RSS feed reader or something, you may have notice that...

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Our Team

Chunlei Wu

Chunlei Wu
@chunleiwu

PI

Cyrus Afrasiabi

Cyrus Afrasiabi

Research Programmer

Sebastien Lelong

Sebastien Lelong

Research Programmer

Jiwen (Kevin) Xin

Jiwen (Kevin) Xin *

Ph.D. Candidate

Ginger Tsueng

Ginger Tsueng *
@GTsueng

Staff Scientist

Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor

Contracting Developer

Byung Ryul Jeon

Byung Ryul Jeon

Visiting Scientist

Marco Alvarado

Marco Alvarado

Research Programmer

Jerry Zhou

Xinghua (Jerry) Zhou

Research Programmer

Nina Moore

Nina Moore

Graduate Student

* Joint with The Su Lab

Join us

If you are passionate about Bioinformatics, Data Science, Semantic Web, Machine-learning and Genomics, you are welcome to contact us (cwu -at- scripps -dot- edu) and we will find a suitable position (Scientist, Developer, PostDoc or Graduate Research Assistant) in our team.