Bioactivity Microservice (ccte-api-bioactivity)

Overview

The Bioactivity Microservice is a RESTful API designed to manage and provide bioactivity data. It interacts with a PostgreSQL database and offers various endpoints for bioactivity-related operations.

Available Data

Data underlying the Bioactivity API comes from ToxCast’s invitrodb. US EPA’s Toxicity Forecaster (ToxCast) program makes medium- and high-throughput bioactivity screening assay data publicly available for prioritization and hazard characterization.

Technologies Used

• Java: Programming language used for the development of the application.
• Spring Boot: Framework used to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications.
• Spring Data JPA: Part of the Spring Data family, used to simplify data access and persistence.
• Spring Data REST: Used to expose Spring Data repositories as RESTful web services.
• PostgreSQL: Relational database used for storing bioactivity data.
• Maven: Build automation tool used for managing project dependencies and build lifecycle.
• Lombok: Java library used to reduce boilerplate code.
• MapStruct: Code generator used to simplify the implementation of mappings between Java bean types.
• Swagger/OpenAPI: Used for API documentation and testing.
• Testcontainers: Java library used for integration testing with Docker containers.

Configuration

The application configuration is managed through YAML files. The main configuration file is application.yml, and environment-specific configurations are in files like application-local.yml.

Build and Deployment

The project uses Maven for build and deployment processes. Continuous integration and deployment can be set up using tools like GitHub Actions.

Getting Started

To build and run the project locally, use the following Maven commands:

mvn clean install
mvn spring-boot:run

Project Structure

src/
├── main/
│   ├── java/
│   │   └── gov/epa/ccte/api/bioactivity/
│   │       ├── projection/
│   │       │   └── assay/
│   │       ├── repository/
│   │       ├── service/
│   │       └── web/
│   │           └── rest/
│   └── resources/
│       └── application.properties
└── test/

Dependencies

• spring-boot-starter-web
• spring-boot-starter-data-rest
• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
• postgresql
• lombok
• springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui
• mapstruct
• spring-boot-starter-test
• spring-boot-testcontainers
• testcontainers
• jackson-datatype-hibernate6

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for guidelines.

Contact

For any inquiries, please contact the project maintainers.

Disclaimer

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