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Gene search via the API, is it possible? #5

Closed AlfredoKCL closed 3 years ago

AlfredoKCL commented 3 years ago

Dear developers,

I would like to use the gene search tool of the Enrichr webserver via the API. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for your help

Best wishes

Alfredo

maxim-k commented 3 years ago

@AlfredoKCL you can use /genemap endpoint with two parameters: gene for a gene name and (optional) json=true to get results in json format.

AlfredoKCL commented 3 years ago

@maxim-k Thank you very much Maxim. I have another question about this. I am not that familiar with the json fomat so I would like to have the output in plaintext. If I set json=false I obtain this but I lose the category information. Is it possible to get the output in plaintext but still grouped by category (e.g. Transcription, pathways, etc) and by source (e.g. for Transcription, ChEA 2016, ENCODE and ChEA Consensus TFs from ChIP-X, ARCHS4 TFs Coexp, etc)?

Alternatively, I imagine I could recreate the menu with the categories from the json output, however, not being able to do it myself, is there a script to do it?

Thank you very much in advance

Alfredo