INDRA Bot

A bot that translatest natural language questions into database queries and answers with a list of INDRA Statements extracted from the literature and pathway databases.

The bot backend (bot.py) has two frontends:

• Slack bot (slack.py) which takes questions in a Slack channel or direct messages
• Web app (app.py) which takes questions in a text box on a website

Slack bot

To run the slack bot, do

python slack.py

Website

To run the web app, do

python app.py

or use a WSGI application server like gunicorn.

Funding

The development of indrabot is funded under the DARPA Communicating with Computers program (ARO grant W911NF-15-1-0544).