diff --git a/bioapi/Dockerfile b/bioapi/Dockerfile
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23f957a1b3048a85dd64d8590dcdbc098aed0020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bioapi/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+FROM tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi:python3.7-alpine3.8
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache git
+
+COPY ./requirements.txt requirements.txt
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/bioapi/README.md b/bioapi/README.md
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06f484a7d206892101c81abed69462b00c667919
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+++ b/bioapi/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Bioapi Web service
+
+This is preliminary documentation for the service.
+
+This service aims to facilitate aquisition of information from external APIs with clean documentation and a common returned format.
+
+## Response format
+
+Each response is comprised two parts:
+
+```json
+{
+    'info': {}
+    'response': {}
+}
+```
+
+The first `info` section contains information about the time the request was done on the server and which url has been requested.
+
+The `response` section contains the response from the API requested.
diff --git a/bioapi/app/__init__.py b/bioapi/app/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/bioapi/app/main.py b/bioapi/app/main.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c5e4f377d1433dda383901b77d3db2e90e75f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bioapi/app/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import logging
+
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+
+from routers import kegg_orthology
+
+app = FastAPI(
+    title="BioAPI",
+    description="Access external bioinformatics API",
+    version="0.0.1",
+    docs_url="/documentation",
+    openapi_prefix="/bioapi"
+)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+app.include_router(
+    kegg_orthology.router,
+    prefix="/kegg-orthology",
+    tags=["KEGG"],
+)
diff --git a/bioapi/app/routers/__init__.py b/bioapi/app/routers/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/bioapi/app/routers/common/__init__.py b/bioapi/app/routers/common/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/bioapi/app/routers/common/response/__init__.py b/bioapi/app/routers/common/response/__init__.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/bioapi/app/routers/common/response/model.py b/bioapi/app/routers/common/response/model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cda8c5420011ae408273edb39cddb13e88adafdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bioapi/app/routers/common/response/model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel, HttpUrl
+
+
+class InfoModel(BaseModel):
+    time: datetime
+    requested_url: HttpUrl
+
+
+class ResponseModel(BaseModel):
+    info: InfoModel
+    response: dict
diff --git a/bioapi/app/routers/kegg_orthology.py b/bioapi/app/routers/kegg_orthology.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09e1336d9cad60bffb599a468fae5c43ceba4b63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bioapi/app/routers/kegg_orthology.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from bioapi.togows import TogoWSEntryAPI
+from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException, Path
+from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
+
+from .common.response.model import ResponseModel
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+
+class KeggResponseModel(ResponseModel):
+
+    class Config:
+        schema_extra = {
+            "example": {
+                "info": {
+                    "time": "2020-04-08T10:12:37.815424",
+                    "requested_url": "http://togows.org/entry/kegg-orthology/K06925.json"
+                },
+                "response": {
+                    "entry_id": "K06925",
+                    "name": "tsaE",
+                    "names": [
+                    "tsaE"
+                    ],
+                    "definition": "tRNA threonylcarbamoyladenosine biosynthesis protein TsaE",
+                    "pathways": {},
+                    "modules": {},
+                    "classes": [],
+                    "diseases": {},
+                    "dblinks": {
+                    "COG": [
+                        "COG0802"
+                    ]
+                    },
+                    "genes": {},
+                    "references": []
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+
+@router.get(
+    "/{kegg_id}",
+    response_model=KeggResponseModel,
+    summary="Retrieve Kegg orthology information through togows.org API",
+    response_description="KEGG entry at the JSON format",
+)
+async def kegg_orthology(
+    kegg_id: str = Path(
+        ...,
+        description="KEGG orthology ID",
+        regex="^K[0-9]{5}$"
+        )
+    ):
+    """
+    KEGG orthology ID have the format `KXXXXX`. *example*: `K06925`
+
+    [More information about KEGG orthology](https://www.genome.jp/kegg/ko.html)
+    """
+    kegg_api = TogoWSEntryAPI("kegg-orthology")
+    try:
+        response = kegg_api.get(kegg_id)
+    except HTTPError:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail=f"{kegg_id} not found")
+    return {
+        'info': {
+            'time': datetime.now(),
+            'requested_url': kegg_api.last_url_requested
+        },
+        'response': response
+    }
diff --git a/bioapi/requirements.txt b/bioapi/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..990c80e65eb97893a28cba8d429a86573da9c34b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bioapi/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+git+https://github.com/khillion/bioapi.git#egg=bioapi
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 38fea5fe1fdd0d63a6b80456b6cee88b4a039252..41f1ed4b4c0934327e9217a4f13567a471520ba9 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -106,6 +106,20 @@ services:
     networks:
       - main
 
+  bioapi:
+    container_name: bioapi
+    build:
+      context: ./bioapi
+    volumes:
+      - ./bioapi/app:/app
+    entrypoint: /start-reload.sh
+    ports:
+      - "81:80"
+    environment:
+      DEBUG: "true"
+    networks:
+      - main
+
 volumes:
   postgresql-data:
   django-static:
diff --git a/nginx/dev/nginx.conf b/nginx/dev/nginx.conf
index 957ca6151c0053dd83468ac263cd4fac0cbf1e43..e1c686e1095a60d0bae1ecf8ea8794947c0d4d9c 100644
--- a/nginx/dev/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx/dev/nginx.conf
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ http {
     server backend:8000;
   }
 
+  upstream bioapi {
+    server bioapi:80;
+  }
+
   upstream frontend {
     server frontend:8080;
   }
@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ http {
   }
 
   upstream portainer {
-      server portainer:9000;
+    server portainer:9000;
   }
 
   server {
@@ -56,6 +60,13 @@ http {
       proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
     }
 
+    # bioapi urls
+    location /bioapi/ {
+      proxy_pass http://bioapi/;
+      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+    }
+
     # flower
     location /flower/ {
         rewrite ^/flower/(.*)$ /$1 break;