APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR TABULAR GENOMIC DATASETS

摘要

A computer application programming interface (API) for interacting with genomic data. Genomic data is stored by a genomic information provider using cloud-optimized, tabular structures in the form of genomic tables. A client computer may instruct, via API method calls, the genomic information provider to create a genomic table. Client computers may add genomic data to the genomic table via additional API method calls. A client computer may close the genomic table via an API method call. Once closed, client computers may retrieve genomic data based on genomic coordinates from the genomic table via API method calls. In this way, the transmission of genomic data via flat files can be avoided.