bioversions 0.0.1

What's the current version for each biological database?

Bioversions

What's the current version for each biological database?

Installation

pip install -e .

Usage

import bioversions

bioversion = bioversions.resolve('biogrid')
assert bioversion.version == '4.2.192', 'This was true on Dec 5th, 2020!'

By default, the results are cached and only refreshed once per day with the help of cachier. The cache is stored in ~/.data/bioversions. The cache location can be overridden by setting the BIOVERSIONS_HOME environment variable via pystow.

Web Application

Run the web application in your shell with

$ bioversions

Options can be listed with bioversions --help.

You can navigate to http://localhost:5000 to see all versions as HTML or programmatically resolve given databases with the http://localhost:5000/database/<name> endpoint like in the following:

import requests

res = requests.get('http://localhost:5000/database/biogrid').json()
assert res['success']
assert res['result']['name'] == 'BioGRID'
assert res['result']['version'] == '4.2.192', 'This was true on Dec 5th, 2020!'

Contributing

To add more databases to the list, you can create a new submodule of bioversions.sources and extend the bioversions.utils.Getter class to identify the most recent version for your target database. See bioversions.sources.biogrid as an example.