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+# Biolink-Monarch
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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/nathandunn/biolink-monarch.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/nathandunn/biolink-monarch)
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+Wrapper around the [Monarch Iniatitive Biolink API](https://api.monarchinitiative.org/api/). 
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+The [Monarch Intiative](https://monarchinitiative.org/) is a warehouse that integrates, aligns, and re-distributes cross-species gene, genotype, variant, disease, and phenotype data using ontology associations.
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+The [Biolink API](https://github.com/biolink/biolink-api) is an open API  biologically and biomedically relevant entities, and the relationships between them.
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+![Screen Shot](images/ScreenShot1.png)
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