Biolink API

The Biolink API provides access to information on biological and biomedically relevant entities, and associations between these entities.

It is a light-weight data access layer that standardizes on,

• how data is accessed from multiple sources, by standardizing on access patterns
• the request parameters, by standardizing on core parameters for each route
• the response, by standardizing on the Biolink Model to represent knowledge about entities and associations

While the API prescribes a core specification for commonly used routes, the actual implementation itself is left to the implementers.

There are two incarnations of the Biolink API,

• Monarch API
• Gene Ontology API

with the latter being the canonical implementation, where the API sits on top of a Solr-based document store and a Neo4j graph database.