Deconflation endpoint

[cbizon]

Conflation can be a useful tool for representing knowledge in a database, but it is sometimes not a good fit for the presentation layer. For instance, our gene/protein conflation minimizes the number of hops in a database query, but sends shivers down the spine of every good biologist.

One tool that may help would be a deconflation endpoint. Given the clique leader of a conflated clique, return the cliques that are conflated into this original clique.

Bonus points for returning the relationship between the deconflated cliques (has_product, has_active_ingredient).

[gaurav]

One tool that may help would be a deconflation endpoint. Given the clique leader of a conflated clique, return the cliques that are conflated into this original clique.

I wonder if we can meet some of these use-cases by adding an include_clique_leaders option to node normalization -- if this flag is turned on, we would return a list of clique leaders (along with their types, taxa and optionally descriptions) when returning a clique that includes conflation. I haven't yet added the ability to include all the identifiers for each clique leader, but I should be able to add that without too much difficulty. Have a look at the example output and let me know if this would meet your needs.

Bonus points for returning the relationship between the deconflated cliques (has_product, has_active_ingredient).

The xref information is completely lost when in the NodeNorm Redis databases at the moment, but you can get that information from Babel Explorer (which will have a web frontend soon).