Queries to be implemented in the future

This page discusses the requirements of the various data access modules of the Phenoscape application to be demonstrated at the ASIH workshop, and documents the performance of the various querying strategies being tested for these modules.

Anatomy data services

Given a specific anatomical entity A, the requirements of the anatomy data service module are as follows:

1. Identify ALL unique phenotypes {P} that are composed of the entity A or any of its subtypes.
2. For each identified phenotype P which is of the form inheres_in(Q, E)
   1. Identify the quality Q.
      1. In addition, identify the character C which subsumes Q. This requires navigating the PATO hierarchy recursively in some cases
   2. Identify the entity E. E may be the same as A, or any valid subtype of A.
   3. Identify the set of taxa {T} or genotypes {GT} that exhibit the phenotype P.
      1. For a genotype GT, identify the gene G that encodes it.

The result should be a list in the format shown below

<javascript> <Search-Anatomical-Entity> <Phenotype> <Entity> <Quality> <Character> <List of taxa>OR<List of genes> </javascript>

Strategy #1

This strategy is the simplest way to try and get all the necessary information related to the anatomical entity being searched for. Below is the actual query which attempts to do this. This query returns the unique phenotypes associated with the anatomical entity, and the qualities and specific anatomical entities associated with the phenotype, as well as the list of taxa that exhibit each of these phenotypes in one fell table join (uh, swoop).

Query

<sql> SELECT DISTINCT taxon_node.uid AS taxon, phenotype_node.uid AS phenotype, anatomy_node.uid AS anatomy, quality_node.uid AS quality, slim_node.uid AS slim FROM link AS inheres_link, link AS is_a_link, link AS subset_link, link AS exhibits_link, node AS phenotype_node, node AS anatomy_node, node AS inheres_pred_node, node AS is_a_pred_node, node AS quality_node, node AS slim_node, node AS subset_pred_node, node AS taxon_node, node AS exhibits_pred_node WHERE exhibits_pred_node.uid = 'PHENOSCAPE:exhibits' AND subset_pred_node.uid = 'oboInOwl:inSubset' AND is_a_pred_node.uid = 'OBO_REL:is_a' AND is_a_link.is_inferred = 'f' AND inheres_pred_node.uid = 'OBO_REL:inheres_in' AND anatomy_node.uid = 'TAO:0000108' AND slim_node.uid IN ('attribute_slim', 'value_slim') AND exhibits_link.node_id = taxon_node.node_id AND exhibits_link.predicate_id = exhibits_pred_node.node_id AND exhibits_link.object_id = phenotype_node.node_id AND subset_link.node_id = quality_node.node_id AND subset_link.predicate_id = subset_pred_node.node_id AND subset_link.object_id = slim_node.node_id AND is_a_link.node_id = phenotype_node.node_id AND is_a_link.predicate_id = is_a_pred_node.node_id AND is_a_link.object_id = quality_node.node_id AND inheres_link.node_id = phenotype_node.node_id AND inheres_link.predicate_id = inheres_pred_node.node_id AND inheres_link.object_id = anatomy_node.node_id; </sql>

Execution Details

• Rows returned: 2070
• Time: 0.6 ~ 17 s