Obtaining the extra metadata information from one experiment

01-02-experiment-extra-metadata-info.py

import xmlrpclib

from pprint import pprint

url = "http://deepblue.mpi-inf.mpg.de/xmlrpc"
user_key = "anonymous_key"

server = xmlrpclib.Server(url, allow_none=True)

# Lets get the information about the experiment e30000
(status, info) = server.info("e30000", user_key)

pprint(info[0]["extra_metadata"])

# The output will be:
'''
{'assembly': 'mm9',
 'depleted_in_term_id': '[]',
 'depleted_in_term_name': '[]',
 'experiment_encode_accession': '/experiments/ENCSR000CEG/',
 'experiment_url': 'https://www.encodeproject.org/experiments/ENCSR000CEG/',
 'file_encode_accession': 'ENCFF001YBB',
 'file_status': 'released',
 'file_type': 'bed broadPeak',
 'file_url': 'https://www.encodeproject.org/files/ENCFF001YBB/',
 'lab_@id': '/labs/bing-ren/',
 'lab_address1': 'Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine',
 'lab_address2': '9500 Gilman Drive, Room 231',
 'lab_city': 'La Jolla',
 'lab_country': 'USA',
 'lab_fax': '',
 'lab_institute_label': 'UCSD',
 'lab_institute_name': 'University of California at San Diego',
 'lab_name': 'bing-ren',
 'lab_phone1': '',
 'lab_phone2': '',
 'lab_pi': '/users/ea5e2bd6-be7a-4b18-a2e8-dee86005422f/',
 'lab_postal_code': '',
 'lab_schema_version': '2',
 'lab_state': 'CA',
 'lab_status': 'current',
 'lab_title': 'Bing Ren, UCSD',
 'lab_uuid': '2f706386-9534-4e36-918d-a0f6b46d9071',
 'nucleic_acid_term_name': 'DNA',
 'original_file_size': '322022',
 'original_file_url': 'https://www.encodeproject.org/files/ENCFF001YBB/@@download/ENCFF001YBB.bed.gz',
 'output_category': 'annotation',
 'output_type': 'peaks',
 'status': 'released',
 'submitted_file_name': 'mm9/wgEncodeLicrTfbs/wgEncodeLicrTfbsTestisPol2MAdult8wksC57bl6StdPk.broadPeak.gz'}
'''