<h1>Web API</h1>

<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>The Cancer Genomic Data Server (CGDS) web service interface provides direct programmatic access to all genomic data stored within the server.  This enables you to easily access data from your favorite programming language, such as Python, Java, Perl, R or MatLab.  The CGDS web service is REST-based, meaning that client applications create a query consisting of parameters appended to a URL, and receive back either either text or an XML response.  F