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Feedback variant not available in search results #3627

Open d0choa opened 3 days ago

d0choa commented 3 days ago

For context, one of the most significant changes between OTG and the new Platform is the definition of a variant in the variant index. Whereas we used to include every variant in GnomAD (~70M), we now only include variants for which we have any phenotypic information available (~6.5M). Some resources (e.g. Ensembl or GnomAD) now contain variants over 700M, so it's expected that a user might land on the Platform with a variant we don't have. For this reason, it would be important that the user understands why before they give up or start bombarding us with issues.

Because variants can have predictable identifiers, it could be beneficial to anticipate when a user is trying to request a variant and we have no results to trigger a message explaining why no variant was found.

The patterns for variants could be of two different types:

Regarding the message. I'd like to suggest the following text as a placeholder. We can adjust the text later on:

**Variant not found**. The Open Targets Platform only includes variants with a known phenotypic association. For more information, see [documentation](https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/). 

I'm assigning it to you, @carcruz, in the first place, and we can all agree on how and when to do this.

buniello commented 2 days ago

Please note: for PPP 24.12 release, the warning message should point to PPP documentation, where we should make sure we explain our 'variants' inclusion choices