NLM Launches API Web Interface

The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health, today released a new API Web page. An API is a set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer's operating system.


This new resource (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/) supports the Administration's interest in promoting computer and mobile applications development using government data resources accessible via APIs.
The NLM API page provides:

• a consolidated list and descriptions of NLM systems and databases that currently have API access to data
• links to supporting documentation
• links to the respective Web application interface, if applicable

The NLM API page is also available from the NLM Databases & Electronic Resources page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/) which provides links and short descriptions to dozens of health and science related resources maintained by the NLM.