biothings/mydisease.info

too many results on Disease Ontology search

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andrewsu commented

In this API query: http://mydisease.info/v1/query?q=disease_ontology.doid=DOID\:0060369&fields=disease_ontology, I expect to get one item back (*). However, mydisease currently reports 11117 hits. The top hit is the correct item (good), but it's not clear why the others are returned.

(*) in relatively rare cases, two or more items for one DOID may be expected since we use MONDO as the primary key...

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kevinxin90 commented

I suppose it's the query syntax:
Tried using quotes("") around DOID, seems working fine: http://mydisease.info/v1/query?q=disease_ontology.doid="DOID:0060369"&fields=disease_ontology

andrewsu commented

Got it, thanks!

newgene commented

@andrewsu also want to note that in your original query for the q parameter, the : should be used instead of = between the field and its value. The following query works as expected:

http://mydisease.info/v1/query?q=disease_ontology.doid:DOID\:0060369&fields=disease_ontology

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