Fig. 3From: The MG-RAST API explorer: an on-ramp for RESTful query compositionUsing the API explorer to construct a query for aquatic datasets from Chicago. This query was built by selecting “location” from a drop-down menu, entering the value “Chicago,” and selecting “biome” from the same menu and entering the term “aquatic.” All the valid API options are presented as editable fields; the API’s response to the query is shown in the gray box at the bottom of the page labeled “result from API.”Back to article page