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This page contains the details of a technical writing project accepted for
Google Season of Docs.
Project summary
- Open source organization:
- Ensembl
- Technical writer:
- laurelm
- Project name:
- REST API documentation
- Project length:
- Standard length (3 months)
Project description
Enhance the developer user guide for using the Ensembl REST API
Main focus -- Provide a more user friendly introduction/getting started section.
Proposed implementation is based along the lines of these doc pages:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static/intro
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static/dev-guide
Main page:
Includes these sections (high level view):
Overview of what this API provides in practical terms
Short intro to REST
A quick example
Authentication info
Introduction to how the URLs are structured using various HTTP methods
Info on the required and optional parameters and where they are found in the auto-generated endpoint documentation.
Link to the following training page:
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/course/ensembl-rest-api
Info on helper_functions that are used in the training course
Subsequent pages
Depending on complexity of the topics listed in the main page, some topics may need to link to subsequent detail pages.
Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Last updated 2024-11-08 UTC.
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