April 18: Where Things Stand

This is my final update on my work done during the rotation period. The main challenge I have been tackeling is using Jim's scripts to pull data from phenoscape using ZFIN or MGI URI's. I can succesfully query using just SPARQL but from what I understand the data returned is linked to a temporal ID that changes upon each query. So in order to use that data I have to integrate my SPARQL query into Jim's scala scripts and then immediately apply Prishanti's comparison algortihm. The biggest issue is the actual integration of SPARQL into Jim's Scala scripts. He has a system set up but it is very specific to his needs. In order for this porject to be succesful, the system has to be altered to read in the necessary sparql prefixes that need to be used. From there passing the output to Prishanti's scripts, with a bit of editing and grouping in between, should not be too dificult, in theory.