[bioontology-support] [BioPortal] Feedback from Sai Lakshmi Subramanian

[Ray Fergerson]

You just need to tack on a "*" to the end of the search term. Something
like:

http://data.bioontology.org/search?q=melano*

will match melanoma and a bunch of other things.

Ray

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Name: Sai Lakshmi Subramanian

Email: sailakss at bcm.edu

Location: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/

Comment:
Hi,

I would like some information on using Bioportal API to dynamically
retrieve lists of ontology terms. We would like to use a look ahead search
functionality in our website. I see that the widgets use this URL:
URL1:
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/search/json_search/?q={QUERY_TERM}&ontol
ogies={ONTOLOGY}&subtreerootconceptid=

which returns results in a list format with ~!~ line separators, that we
can parse to get the terms, their ontology IDs, definitions, synonymns,
etc.

Your new API URL produces a nice JSON format.
URL2:
http://data.bioontology.org/search?q={USER_ENTERED_TERM}&ontology={ONTOLOG
Y_SHORT_ID}&apikey={APIKEY}&subtree_root={SUBTREE_URL}

However, the new API URL does not let me do partial word searches (say
user enters first 3 letters of the term), which can be done with the
autocomplete URL. I am wondering if we can continue using the URL1
approach, does it use the same latest REST-API? Or is there a way to use
the new API to do partial word searches for auto complete?

I understand that you have the widgets for auto complete, but for our
purposes, we would prefer to use the API.

Thanks for the time and help.

Regards,
Sai

Bioinformatics Research Lab
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX



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