Ping external APIs/tools servers before using them and abort if unresponsive

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Ping external APIs/tools servers before using them and abort if unresponsive #71

Open susannasiebert opened 6 years ago

susannasiebert commented 6 years ago

Original issue: https://github.com/griffithlab/pVAC-Seq/issues/98

Add a test that IEDB is working and the output is as expected. @jasonwalker80 mentioned https://nightli.es/

susannasiebert commented 2 years ago

Chris suggested that instead of a weather report, we would ping the IEDB API (and the NetChop, NetMHCstabpan servers) (if using the tools/APIs) before running the pipeline and abort if they are unresponsive.