It's already almost 2 years that I wrote about the upcoming RESTful times in Bioinformatics. And well, it's already happening...
Just as curiosity, I will explain my recent experience using ENSEMBL REST API.

It's a long time since Molecular Biology data (from sequence strings to protein structural coordinates) are being released openly to the public, as it's the Web an interface for exploring and visualizing those data. Indeed, my first approaches to Bioinformatics and to, more or less, serious programing were preparing CGI points to command-line applications or to results of analysed data.