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API access to STARGEO: stargeo.org
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Auto-update scripts: Is it better to utilize online API or get database access? #18

Open krishbharat96 opened 6 years ago

krishbharat96 commented 6 years ago

Hello @idrdex,

I am currently working on creating auto-update scripts for the latest version of hetionet (designed by @dhimmel). In order to do that, I will need continued access to the latest stargeo database and resources. Our plan is to update the network on a weekly-monthly basis and I was curious if it would be better to send out stargeo differential gene expression analyses for each of the ~ 125 disease ontology diseases within the database every month to the online api (at http://stargeo.org/api_docs/) or to just obtain database access and use the starapi package. I don't want to overload the online api resource, but I also want the latest data available to stargeo. Do you think it would be worth creating around 125 new analysis per month or would it be worth obtaining access to the database on AWS. If you think I should do the latter, how would I obtain access to the database. In addition, what do you think I should do from here? Thank you so much for your time!

Sincerely, Krish Bharat