SME request: when a node is returned, provide basic information about it including: name, synonyms, cross references, and potentially Gene Ontology annotations

[karafecho]

The QotM surfaced SME desire for richer node annotation. Specifically, a request was made for richer annotation of gene nodes, e.g., “what is this gene?” and “what biological process(es) is this gene involved with? The user desired the ability to hover over a node and see human-readable information.

Another SME put forward a perhaps related suggestion related to gene lists. Specifically, this user question what a user would do with a list of genes, even if scored and ranked, Can Translator provide additional information to assist users with interpretation of the results?

[sierra-moxon]

From TAQA:

• node attributes aren't consistent across results, UI can't do this yet.
• maybe could be handled with link outs to underlying databases?
  • e.g. this node is from DrugBank, make a link to DrugBank, and then it's done.
• right now, there is more information in the hover over the node, but a lot of nodes just don't have information. link outs would be appropriate.
• this would be a CURI->URL expansion (we can get a Biolink jsonld file with all the approved prefix->URI expansions)

TODO:

• split into two tickets: add link outs for UI, second is how to provide consistent attributes back to the ARS/UI (architecture)

[sierra-moxon]

closing after split into two new tickets: #91 and #92