This portion covers how to programmatically access information for your work.
For starters, you can fetch the list of available PTMs by calling this URL with a GET request:
/ptmkb/api/ptms
To gather information on a protein whose PTMs you wish to identify, you can make a GET request to this URL,
with either the upid (UniProt ID) or the upac (UniProt Accession Number) required.
Note that if both are provided, upid will take preference:
/ptmkb/api/proteins
For instance, if you wish to gather information on O14746, you must invoke a GET request to the
URL like so:
/ptmkb/api/proteins?upac=O14746
Besides the availability to download the tables through the website, you can also programmatically fetch the table for your work.
The values calculated for a protein sequence are log-odd frequencies over the entire available sequences in dbPTM. If you wish to use a table for your purposes, that can also be fetched using a GET request.
For fetching a PTM's table, make a request at the following URL:
/ptmkb/api/data
This will fetch all tables available in our database. The tables are kept in JSON format for usability and storage.
For a specific table, pass the name of the PTM to selection. As an example, for Phosphorylation,
the URL would be:
/ptmkb/api/data?selection=Phosphorylation
For C-linked Glycosylation, it would be:
/ptmkb/api/data?selection=C-linked%20Glycosylation
A list of all possible selections are listed below for your convenience. Please keep in mind that the PTM names are case-sensitive! The list will be updated with more PTM types as they are readily available.