Source code for tooluniverse.mpd_tool
import requests
from typing import Any, Dict
from urllib.parse import quote
from .base_tool import BaseTool
from .tool_registry import register_tool
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@register_tool("MPDRESTTool")
class MPDRESTTool(BaseTool):
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def __init__(self, tool_config: Dict):
super().__init__(tool_config)
self.session = requests.Session()
self.session.headers.update({"Accept": "application/json"})
self.timeout = 30
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def run(self, arguments: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
try:
# Use ENCODE as alternative data source for biological samples.
# MPD's own REST API (phenome.jax.org/api) has no endpoint that
# takes a strain name + phenotype category directly -- confirmed
# live, its phenotype endpoints require a measure ID or project
# symbol the caller doesn't supply here.
strain = arguments.get("strain", "C57BL/6J")
limit = arguments.get("limit", 10)
# searchTerm is a free-text match, unlike biosample_ontology.term_name
# (a tissue/cell-type ontology field, not a strain field) -- confirmed
# live the latter always returns zero results for real strain names,
# while searchTerm correctly surfaces strain-mentioning experiments
# (e.g. 292 hits for "C57BL/6J") and zero for strains ENCODE has no
# data on (e.g. "DBA/2J").
url = (
"https://www.encodeproject.org/search/?type=Experiment"
f"&searchTerm={quote(str(strain))}&format=json&limit={limit}"
)
response = self.session.get(url, timeout=self.timeout)
response.raise_for_status()
# Parse JSON response
data = response.json()
return {
"status": "success",
"data": data,
"url": url,
"query_info": {
"strain": strain,
"limit": limit,
"data_source": "ENCODE (MPD alternative)",
"note": (
"ENCODE has no mouse-phenotype-by-strain data model, so "
"results are general ENCODE experiments whose free text "
"mentions this strain, not curated MPD phenotype "
"measurements. 'phenotype_category' is not applied -- "
"ENCODE has no equivalent concept. For genuine curated "
"phenotype data, query the Mouse Phenome Database "
"directly at https://phenome.jax.org/api."
),
},
}
except Exception as e:
return {"status": "error", "error": f"MPD API error: {str(e)}"}