EMBL - EBI01808 Software Developer Technical Assessment

The code consists of 3 basic parts:

• app.py: Flask instance
• config.py: Configurations for MYSQL Database
• main.py: API endpoint

Read the README files under each project for more details.

Installation for Flask and MYSQL support

pip install Flask
pip install flask-mysql
pip install Flask-Cors

Run the API

python main.py

URL:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/gene_suggest

http://127.0.0.1:5000/gene_suggest?query=<query_name>&species=<species_name>&limit=<limit_val>

Default parameters for query, species and limit are "brc", "homo_sapiens" and 10 respectively.