TCGA.intent

A Web Intent service to download files from the open-access HTTP directory of TCGA.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-04-08

By: Alexander Grueneberg

Users: 11

Version: 0.0.2 (Last updated: 2014-12-04)

Creation date: 2014-12-04

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/

Size: 99.03K

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NOTE: Support for Web Intents was removed in Chrome 24, so this app will not work anymore. It is kept on the Chrome Web Store for historic reasons only.

TCGA.intent enables you to download files from the open-access HTTP directory of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) from within the browser—without using or maintaining a proxy server. TCGA.intent uses Web Intents, a service discovery and light-weight RPC mechanism for Web apps.

All you have to do to use TCGA.intent in your Web app is to create an Intent that uses the following action–type combination: http://mathbiol.org/intents/tcga/download [text/uri-list]

Code and documentation available on GitHub: https://github.com/agrueneberg/TCGA.intent