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MyGene.info: A BioThings API for gene annotations
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Some wildcard searches return empty? #58

Closed cmdcolin closed 5 years ago

cmdcolin commented 5 years ago

Is there any reason why something like

http://mygene.info/v3/query?q=ENSG00000249077*

Returns empty (in fact no auto completes are available http://mygene.info/v3/query?q=ENSG000002490*)

But this does http://mygene.info/v3/query?q=ENSG00000249077

I am just wondering how my client should handle something like this.. it seems little hard to search for both things and combine results.

newgene commented 5 years ago

@cmdcolin the default wildcard query searches only against three "text" based fields: symbol, name and summary, assuming that is a one (certainly not all) common use case for wildcard queries. However, you can always make wildcard queries for any indexed fields using "fielded queries":

http://mygene.info/v3/query?q=ensembl.gene:ENSG00000249*

If you are using MyGene.info API for autocompletion on a web-app, you may find our "user queries" very powerful and flexible for your customized query need:

https://github.com/biothings/mygene.info/issues/4#issuecomment-273294532

cmdcolin commented 5 years ago

Thanks, that looks awesome. For demo purposes, just being able to search on name/symbol/description is great. I will see if possible if I can design a user query and let you know!