Check Clinvar IDs for validity

Open acoffman opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Something like the pubmed existence check endpoint, where we hit their api and then return the variant name if found

Mar 09 '17 19:03 acoffman

https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=clinvar&id=65533&retmode=json

Their JSON endpoint actually seems to have issues escaping the > in HGVS, maybe we should just use the XML endpoint they provide:

https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esummary.fcgi?db=clinvar&id=65533

Mar 09 '17 19:03 acoffman