URL Form

http://www.rna-society.org/ViRBase/php/api.php?keyword=**&type=**&score=**&species=**&method=**

• keyword = The Gene Symbol or miRBase ID that the user wants to search
• type = The interaction type that the user wants to search
• species = species that the user wants to search
• method = detection method that the user wants to search
• score = The score interval that the user wants to limit (separate by ',')

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Specification of Tag Values

• For " type " tag:

Valid Value	Note
1	Host-Virus interaction
2	Virus-Host interaction
3	Virus-Virus interaction
0	Host-Host interaction
*	don't limit interaction type

• For " species " tag:

Valid Value	Note
Homo sapiens	species limit to 'Homo sapiens'
Mus musculus	species limit to 'Mus musculus'
*	don't limit species

• For " method " tag:

Valid Value	Note
strong	the detected method is strong evidence
weak	the detected method is weak evidence
prediction	the detected method is prediction
*	don't limit method

• For " score " tag:

Valid Value	Note
0,1	the score ranges from 0.0 to 1.0
0.3,0.7	the score ranges from 0.3 to 0.7
a,b	the score ranges from a to b

Note

• ViRBase supports fuzzy queries, users are able to obtain more results by streamlining input. For example, you can get all the information of keyword contained 'BCL2' in human by the following way:
  http://www.rna-society.org/virbase/php/api.php?keyword=BCL2&species=Homo sapiens&fuzzy=true

Example

• Searching for details which include hsa-miR-34a-5p as keyword:
• http://www.rna-society.org/virbase/api.php?keyword=hsa-miR-34a-5p&fuzzy=false


• Searching for details which include hsa-miR-34a-5p as keyword with score between 0.3 and 0.9:
• http://www.rna-society.org/virbase/api.php?keyword=hsa-miR-34a-5p&score=0.3,0.9&fuzzy=false


• Searching for Virus-Host interactions in Homo sapiens which include kshv-miR-K12-1-5p as keyword with score between 0.3 and 0.9 and the detection method is strong evidence:
• http://www.rna-society.org/virbase/api.php?keyword=kshv-miR-K12-1-5p&score=0.3,0.9&type=2&species=Homo sapiens&method=strong&fuzzy=false