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Models and APIs for Genomic data. RETIRED 2018-01-24
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Change feature_types string to Ontology Term #785

Closed david4096 closed 1 year ago

david4096 commented 7 years ago

Removes a TODO in sequence annotations to replace the string search term with an ontology term message.

To make use of this, the client will have to make it easy to choose features from the sequence ontology when making a search features request. This is an improvement over specifying the string "gene", however, there we have yet to offer a mechanism to determine which types are presented by a given feature set without iterating through it. This is a general usability problem for working with controlled vocabularies when the API does not present a way with working with them directly.

Close #736