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Created by: aparton

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Description

One or more sentences describing in detail the proposed changes.

Added functionality to tell VEP the format of incoming post requests

Use case

Describe the problem. Please provide an example representing the motivation behind the need for having these changes in place.

Prevents VEP from having to guess from the formatting of an incoming POST request

Benefits

If applicable, describe the advantages the changes will have.

Post requests containing faulty HGVS will not crash if the first input does not follow a particular pattern

Possible Drawbacks

If applicable, describe any possible undesirable consequence of the changes.

Testing

Have you added/modified unit tests to test the changes?

Yes.

If so, do the tests pass/fail?

Pass, of course.

Have you run the entire test suite and no regression was detected?

Yes.

Changelog

Are you changing the functionality of an endpoint? If so, please give a one line summary for the public facing changelog.

eg. [/xenobiology/orthologs] Added the ability to look up orthologs and paralogs from klingons and andorians