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: Entrez.
Information on the webservice can be found at: NCBI books.
Information on ENSEMBL genomes API can be found here: Ensembl Genomes.
If you plan to include the library in a tool, register it as explained here.
BiobaseHTTP is the successor of the deprecated EntrezHTTP library.