Do you provide an API to Alkaline so the product can be used in third party implementations?

We do not provide a specific Alkaline API because you do not need an API to use Alkaline in a third party implementation. Alkaline is a standard HTTP/1.0 web server which can be asked to serve data exactly in the same way as any Apache or IIS box.

To return results in a specific form, create a non-html template, which will be used to map results. Then query Alkaline with the right parameters so that this template is used. You can for example return results in an XML format.

The database formats are also fully explained in the documentation at http://www.vestris.com/docs/alkaline/idxref.html

We are working on a set of Perl modules for Alkaline. The tentative implementations are available in AlkalineTools along with the Alkaline main distribution.