Developer Tools

We provide a range of web services for accessing data and vocabularies. Most of these services are REST (Representational State Transfer) based.   The format input parameters can be found in the description of individual services below and output parameters can be primitive data type or XML schema. More information about REST clients can be found here http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/.
We are constantly adding new resources and information accessible through the NIF search. Currently we have published REST based access for the following resources:
Ontology: These services provide access to the NIF vocabularies with the capabilities to query for concepts and relationships. More information about these services is available at https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/OntoQuestMain.
Database Index Query Services: These services allow access to the NIF Data Federation index where the users can search for the records in the neuroscience databases (indexed by NIF) that match the keyword or concept using a programmatic interface. For more information about these services visit, https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/NIF+Web+Services.

https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/Sparql+endpoint

NIF Registry Services: Refer to the NeuroLex SPARQL endpoint, http://neurolex.org/wiki/NeuroLex_SPARQL_endpoint.

NIF is also working on making RDF (Resource Description Framework) version of the data available to the user. RDF is a World Wide Web Consortium’s standard for encoding knowledge in to data. More information about RDF and currently available data in RDF format visit https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/RDF+datasets+on+NIF

http://disco.neuinfo.org/webportal

http://disco.neuinfo.org/linkout/linkout.do