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request variant data from EVA

Published by OpenAI Updated Apr 10
Covers Research Life Sciences Bioinformatics API Development

Description

Submit compact EVA REST requests for species metadata and archived variant lookups. Use when a user wants concise European Variation Archive summaries

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Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all EVA calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1.
  • Prefer metadata and targeted variant lookups over broad genomic window pulls.
  • Keep region queries narrow by species, assembly, or small coordinate windows when possible.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Return raw JSON only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
  • Prefer these paths: meta/species/list and targeted variant or region routes from the EVA REST API.

Input

  • Read one JSON object from stdin.
  • Required fields: base_url, path
  • Optional fields: method, params, headers, json_body, form_body, record_path, response_format, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
  • Common EVA patterns:
    • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1","path":"meta/species/list","record_path":"response.0.result","max_items":10}
    • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1","path":"variants/rs699","max_items":10}

Output

  • Success returns ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records or a compact summary.
  • Use raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
  • Failure returns ok=false with error.code and error.message.

Execution

echo '{"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1","path":"meta/species/list","record_path":"response.0.result","max_items":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.py

References

  • No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and scripts/rest_request.py.

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