The Registry

A registry exists that shows which PSICQUIC services exist and what is their current state. It can be found here: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/psicquic/registry/registry?action=STATUS.

The registry also shows the number of total binary interactions that each resource has made available through PSICQUIC.

Access

There are different ways to access the service, depending if you just want to have a quick look or have an application that want to check the services status programmatically. The URL to access the Registry is RESTful, and follows this syntax:

Except for the action parameter, the rest are optional. The following tables show what values are available for each parameter:

The following table summarises the different parameters that can be passed to the URL.

Parameters

The 'action' parameter

This parameter is mandatory.

The 'format' parameter

This parameter is optional. The default behaviour is to show an web page with the services.

The 'name' parameter

The name is optional and can be used just to get the information for one specific service. Examples:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/psicquic/registry/registry?action=STATUS&name=IntAct http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/psicquic/registry/registry?action=STATUS&name=MINT&format=xml

The 'protocol' parameter

The protocol parameter is optional. It can be used to retrieve SOAP or REST URLs from the list of services.

The 'restricted' parameter

The restricted parameter is optional. It can be used to hide from the list those services that are restricted, normally due to licensing issues.

The 'tags' parameter

The tags parameter is optional. it can be used to select a specific list of PSICQUIC services based on the tagging of their data content. There are currently 5 data content main categories described on the PsicquicServiceTags page. You can describe a specific tag by either using its name or its MI ontology identifier (e.g. MI:0960 is equivalent to 'imex curation'). You can build a query using the boolean operators AND, OR and NOT.
Here are a few sample queries:

Please note that when encoding the query into a URL you will have to encode special characters following standard guidelines. For your convenience we have summarised the main ones you will need with tags here: