Ben Hutton

A note on order of results. JSON is unordered, so it is expected that the client making the request, orders the results based on score.

@buske ah good point. A LIST is ordered, just not key/value pairs in an object. My mistake.

Revitalising this issue, at the very least we could add a "number of total records that are a potential match" field, which will indicate to the user if their results...

I was thinking for simple queries, it could be possible to include a link to view additional results on the returning website. At least in DECIPHERS case, and probably also...

Pagination would be a really hard, possibly impossible sell, for us. We don't want to expose too much data at the same time. It may all be open-access, but that...

DECIPHER does per variant level. Have I previously provided this list? I don't have immediate access to it right now.

HPO do provide stable monthly releases... well, possibly stable... http://compbio.charite.de/hudson/job/hpo.annotations.monthly/

"Alternatively, if it's obsoleted, we could bump it up the ontology until you find a non-obsolete term. :)" I was thinking this could be a solution, however it would require...

Oh gosh... that's not especially helpful. It seems HPO is not really designed to be used programtically without human interaction... =/ A potential solution, I've considered but dislike, is that...

I have some good news on this! I spoke to someone from the EBI yesterday. They are working on a fresh and updated version of the EBI Ontology Lookup Service...