BiobaseHTTP (hackage): BiobaseHTTP provides functions to interface the Bioinformatics REST services - Entrez Ensembl  NCBI Entrez provides multiple different databases and eutils.  For more information on Entrez refer to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/.  Information on the webservice can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/. If you plan to include the library in a tool, register it as explained here.  Information on ENSEMBL genomes API can be found here: http://rest.ensemblgenomes.org/.  BiobaseHTTP is the successor of the deprecated EntrezHTTP library.
Keywords: bioinformatics|gpl|library