Technical development

pulling categories from mediawiki(SNPedia)

• Feb 15th (with Fako & Natasha). From the terminal (local host), this script pulls categories (default on 10) from SNPedia.

#!/usr/bin/python

import json, urllib2

search = u'Rs1001179' # quotes are string.
url = u'http://www.snpedia.com/api.php?action=query&format=json&redirects=true&generator=categories&titles=' + search
request = urllib2.Request(url)  
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
result = response.read() 

f = json.loads(result)
print type(f)
g = json.dumps(f) # dump makes back into a string
print type(g)

for page in f['query']['pages'].itervalues():
        print page['title']

Meaning that rsid number Rs1001179 is found in 10 categories in following results (terminal):

<type 'dict'>
<type 'str'>
Category:On chip Illumina Human 1M
Category:SNPs on chromosome 11
Category:In dbSNP
Category:Is a snp
Category:On chip 23andMe v3
Category:On chip HumanOmni1Quad
Category:On chip 23andMe v2
Category:Has population
Category:On chip 23andMe v1
Category:Has genotype