The BridgeDb project (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-5) (and ELIXIR recommended interoperability resource) has several aims, all around identifier mapping:

1. provide a Java API for identifier mapping
2. provide ID mappings (two flavors: with and without semantic meaning)
3. provide services (R package, OpenAPI webservice)
4. track the history of identifiers

This webpage is the result from the cyber attack in late 2019, disrupting a good bit of the infrastructure. This is why we renewed the website, including the download page. The new page actually is hosted on GitHub as a Markdown file, but this is where things get interesting. The Markdown file is actually autogenerated from a JSON file with all the info. Everything, including the BioSchemas annotation is created from that. Basically, JSON gets converted into Markdown (with a custom script), which gets converted into HTML by a GitHub Action/Pages. So, when someone releases a new mapping file on Zenodo or Figshare, they only have to send me a pull request with updated JSON file.

!/bin/bash

wget -nc https://bridgedb.github.io/data/gene.json
wget -nc https://bridgedb.github.io/data/corona.json
wget -nc https://bridgedb.github.io/data/other.json

jq -r '.mappingFiles | .[] | "\(.file)=\(.downloadURL)"' gene.json > files.txt
jq -r '.mappingFiles | .[] | "\(.file)=\(.downloadURL)"' corona.json >> files.txt
jq -r '.mappingFiles | .[] | "\(.file)=\(.downloadURL)"' other.json >> files.txt

for FILE in $(cat files.txt)
do
  readarray -d = -t splitFILE<<< "$FILE"
  echo ${splitFILE[0]}
  wget -nc -O ${splitFILE[0]} ${splitFILE[1]}
done