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Madison Dunitz 78c9d24ed4 Refactor czi_hosted and server into backend directory, pull common code into backend/common, refactor tests (#2102)
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"""Methods for working with ontologies and the OLS."""
from urllib.parse import quote_plus
import requests
OLS_API_ROOT = "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/api"
# Curie means something like CL:0000001
def _ontology_name(curie):
"""Get the name of the ontology from the curie, CL or UBERON for example."""
return curie.split(":")[0]
def _ontology_value(curie):
"""Get the id component of the curie, 0000001 from CL:0000001 for example."""
return curie.split(":")[1]
def _double_encode(url):
"""Double url encode a url. This is required by the OLS API."""
return quote_plus(quote_plus(url))
def _iri(curie):
"""Get the iri from a curie. This is a bit hopeful that they all map to purl.obolibrary.org"""
if _ontology_name(curie) == "EFO":
return f"http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_{_ontology_value(curie)}"
return f"http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/{_ontology_name(curie)}_{_ontology_value(curie)}"
class OntologyLookupError(Exception):
"""Exception for some problem with looking up ontology information."""
def _ontology_info_url(curie):
"""Get the to make a GET to to get information about an ontology term."""
# If the curie is empty, just return an empty string. This happens when there is no
# valid ontology value.
if not curie:
return ""
else:
return f"{OLS_API_ROOT}/ontologies/{_ontology_name(curie)}/terms/{_double_encode(_iri(curie))}"
def get_ontology_label(curie):
"""For a given curie like 'CL:1000413', get the label like 'endothelial cell of artery'"""
url = _ontology_info_url(curie)
if not url:
return ""
response = requests.get(url)
if not response.ok:
raise OntologyLookupError(
f"Curie {curie} lookup failed, got status code {response.status_code}: {response.text}"
)
return response.json()["label"]
def lookup_candidate_term(label, ontology="cl", method="select"):
"""Lookup candidate terms for a label. This is useful when there is an existing label in a
submitted dataset, and you want to find an appropriate ontology term.
Args:
label: the label to find ontology terms for
ontology: the ontology to search in, cl or uberon or efo for example
method: select or search. search provides much broader results
Returns:
list of (curie, label) tuples returned by OLS
"""
# using OLS REST API [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/docs/api]
url = f"{OLS_API_ROOT}/{method}?q={quote_plus(label)}&ontology={ontology.lower()}"
response = requests.get(url)
if not response.ok:
raise OntologyLookupError(
f"Label {label} lookup failed, got status code {response.status_code}: {response.text}"
)
return [(r["obo_id"], r["label"]) for r in response.json()["response"]["docs"]]