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GGBN API
Hi!

Documentation for the GGBN API is work in progress. Some examples in advance:

API URL: http://www.ggbn.org/ggbn_portal/api/search?

getCountstotal counts of different taxon levels and sample types (used for the start page)
getSampletype&name=Arthropodatotal counts of sample types for a certain name (any level)
getClassification&name=Chordatatotal counts of samples for all children of a name


Feel free to test it. If you have any questions please contact support@ggbn.org. More information will follow soon.