Contributor
Satya.Adda

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.