On June 2, FDA launched openFDA, a new initiative designed to make it easier for web developers, researchers, and the public to access large, important public health datasets collected by the agency. OpenFDA will make publicly available data accessible in a structured, computer-readable format. It provides a "search-based" application programming interface—the set of requirements that govern how one software application can talk to another—that allows users to find both structured and unstructured content online.
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