Expand the species search functionality for the ensembl beta website (Metazoa).
- Mentors
- Jorge Alvarez, Sarah Dyer
- Organization
- Genome Assembly and Annotation
- Technologies
- python, mysql, django, elastic search
- Topics
- genome, search, Taxonomy
The objective of this project is to create a standalone Elasticsearch tool that can handle taxonomic-related requests. This tool helps to expand the Ensembl beta’s search functionality to include and support searching based on taxonomic information. In particular, to provide the users a list of close relatives when a given species is requested and it is not part of Ensembl (yet), return the list of species available given a taxonomic clade instead of a species name, or find a species even when a (homotypic) synonym is provided instead of its current scientific name.