Have biolink pull gene desriptions and pubmed info from mygene and eutils

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API for linked biological knowledge

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Have biolink pull gene desriptions and pubmed info from mygene and eutils #333

Open kshefchek opened 4 years ago

kshefchek commented 4 years ago

Currently on the monarch ui we pull gene descriptions and pmid via the client/browser; however, this behavior is blocked by some browser setups and also results in us over pinging these services. It would be useful to instead fetch these at the API level and cache them.