[bioontology-support] BioPortal seach optional arguments

[Nikolina Koleva]

Dear Trish Whetzel,

for example I get with the following query for the term "bone marrow" 87 hits

http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/bone+marrow/?maxnumhits=100&apikey=MyAPIKEY&level=1&includeproperties=0&isexactmatch=0&ontologyids=null

but if I set the include properties to 1 then there are only 62 hits delivered:

http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/bone+marrow/?maxnumhits=100&apikey=MyAPIKEY&level=1&includeproperties=1&isexactmatch=0&ontologyids=null

analogously for the term "agonist" 
when executing:
 
http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/agonist/?maxnumhits=100&apikey=MyAPIKEY&level=1&includeproperties=0&isexactmatch=0&ontologyids=null

I get 86 hits.


but when the include properties is "on" so to say

http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/search/agonist/?maxnumhits=100&apikey=MyAPIKEY&level=1&includeproperties=1&isexactmatch=0&ontologyids=null

then there are 77.

Thank you for the investigation!

Best regards,
Nikolina


> Hi Nikolina, 
> 
> Can you send the Web service calls (minus your API Key) you were trying for further investigation?
> 
> Thanks!
> Trish 
> 
> 
> On Feb 12, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Nikolina Koleva wrote:
> 
>> Dear all, 
>> 
>> I tried out the BioPortal search via Rest services for several terms. Thereby I checked the optional arguments and an interesting observation was that if I set the includeproperties  to 1 than I am getting less results as if it is set to 0 and this for almost each term.
>> What can be the reason for that? I was thinking that I would actually get even more results.
>> Is it may be possible that the search service excludes the hits that do not have synonym properties or preferred name? Term identifier can not be missing.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Nikolina
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