[ensembl-dev] resolving gene identifiers via REST API v5

[Mihai Glonț]

Dear Ensembl developers,

I am trying to programmatically retrieve basic information (gene name &
description) about a set of Ensembl genes.

The tool works for most cases, such as ENSMUSG00000021620.4[1], but for
accessions like ENSMMUG00000022535.2[2] the request returns status code
400 and the error message is

    "No object found for ID ENSMMUG00000022535.2"

The client is written in Groovy and Java, but I saw the API behaving in
the same way for curl as well, so there's something wrong with my
general approach, rather than a programming bug.

I noticed that I can work around the problem by stripping the version
suffix, but I would really like to avoid this, if possible, since the
dataset is generated externally.

I'd be grateful to hear if there is a fix for this issue.

Best wishes,
Mihai.

[1] curl "http://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/id/ENSMUSG00000021620.4" -H
"Accept: application/json"

[2] curl "http://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/id/ENSMMUG00000022535.2" -H
"Accept: application/json"