Make tidy variant tables with MyVariant.info and Tabulator

We can use the MyVariant.info API and Tabulator to create a web page for making tidy tables with genomic variants.

🐎 Example

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Here is an animation that shows what this code can do:

⚡ Try it

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Try pasting a list of SNP ids at quickgene.net/variants

After you paste the list and click “Search”:

• We use the MyVariant.info service to guess the identifiers that match your query.
• We automatically add links to the Open Targets Genetics web service, which provides further links to many resources for researching genetic variants.

💾 Download the code

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Download the code and try it out yourself:

• Download variants.html

To run it, start a server. Go to your ~/Downloads folder and run:

cd ~/Downloads
python3 -m http.server

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

Then open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8000/variants.html