[ensembl-dev] Few queries regarding Ensembl Rest API Endpoints

[Jaya Sravani Sirigineedi]

Hello,

I am Jaya Sravani Sirigineedi, a part-time software developer working on
the Integrated Genome Browser(IGB) by Bioviz.org under the supervision of
Dr. Ann Loraine. Currently, we are exploring the Ensembl Rest API endpoints
to integrate them into IGB. We plan to provide a dynamic search for the
users where they can enter a non-scientific genome name and we provide
suggestions based on that, once the user selects one of the suggestions we
get all the genome data from Ensembl and load them into IGB to visualize
them.

While investigating the APIs, we encountered a few questions and would
greatly appreciate your guidance. Here is the list of questions:

   1. *Genome Search Functionality with Non-Scientific Names: *There is one
   API that's available to do a search using the non-scientific name (
   https://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/taxonomy_name) that is
   present in Ensembl and we have observed there is no prefix search i.e., if
   I search for hum instead of human it doesn't return any results. We are
   wondering if any APIs are available to do this kind of search.
   2. *Handling API Size Limits: *For a few APIs, such as this API (
   https://rest.ensembl.org/sequence/region/human/X:1..156040895?content-type=application/json)
   that returns the sequence of a specified region and this one (
   https://rest.ensembl.org/overlap/region/human/1:0-26170921?content-type=application/json;feature=gene;feature=transcript;feature=cds;feature=exon)
   that returns the features overlapped over the specified region, we observed
   that size limits restrict the amount of data retrieved. Since we aim to
   load entire chromosomes, is there a way to bypass or increase these limits,
   perhaps via an API key or another method?

Additionally, we would like to inquire if it would be possible to arrange a
workshop, meeting, or session where we could discuss these questions in
more detail and learn how to make the best use of the Ensembl APIs for our
project. We are flexible and can adjust to your schedule.

Thank you for your time and assistance. Please let us know if you need any
more information.

Looking forward to your response.

*Thanks & Regards*
Jaya Sravani Sirigineedi
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