An implementation of a webservice client for InterMine webservices, written in Python

This software is intended for people who make use of InterMine datawarehouses (ie. Biologists) and who want a quicker, more automated way to perform queries. Some examples of sites that are powered by InterMine software, and thus offer a compatible webservice API are:

• FlyMine
• MetabolicMine
• modMine
• RatMine
• YeastMine

Queries here refer to database queries over the integrated datawarehouse. Instead of using SQL, InterMine services use a flexible and powerful sub-set of database query language to enable wide-ranging and arbitrary queries.

The easiest way to install is to use easy_install:

sudo easy_install intermine

The source code can be downloaded from a variety of places:

• From InterMine

  wget http://www.intermine.org/lib/python-webservice-client-0.96.00.tar.gz

• From PyPi

  wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/i/intermine/intermine-0.96.00.tar.gz

• From Github

  git clone git://github.com/alexkalderimis/intermine-ws-python.git

If you would like to run the test suite, you can do so by executing the following command: (from the source directory)

python setup.py test

Once downloaded, you can install the module with the command (from the source directory):

python setup.py install

Extensive documentation is available by using the "pydoc" command, eg:

pydoc intermine.query.Query

Also see:

• Documentation on PyPi: http://packages.python.org/intermine/
• Documentation at InterMine: http://www.flymine.org/download/python-docs http://www.intermine.org/wiki/PythonClient

All InterMine code is freely available under the LGPL license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html