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@@ -22,9 +22,26 @@ from a template named [[https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/master/
 the template you can find get the form gets filled by a Javascript
 routine defined in [[https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/master/wqflask/wqflask/static/new/javascript/dataset_select_menu.js][data_select_menu.js]] which picks up a static JSON
 file for the menu. This static file is generated with
-[[https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/master/wqflask/maintenance/gen_select_dataset.py][gen_select_dataset.py]].  Note that this JSON data will soon be served
-by gn_server, see [[#gnserver-rest][GnServer (REST)]].
+[[https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/master/wqflask/maintenance/gen_select_dataset.py][gen_select_dataset.py]].  Note that this JSON data is served by
+gn_server in the latest version, see [[#gnserver-rest][GnServer (REST)]].
+
+When you hit a search with, for example,
+'http://localhost:5003/search?species=mouse&group=BXD&type=Hippocampus+mRNA&dataset=HC_M2_0606_P&search_terms_or=&search_terms_and=MEAN%3D%2815+16%29+LRS%3D%2823+46%29+&FormID=searchResult'
+it has the menu items as parameters. According to the routing table,
+the search is executed and Redis caching is used (we'll probably
+change that to gn_server). The logic is in search_result.py which
+invokes database functions in
+wqflask/dbFunction/webqtlDatabaseFunction.py, for example. The
+receiving template lives at [[https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/master/wqflask/wqflask/templates/search_result_page.html][search_result_page.html]].
 
 ** GnServer (REST)
 
 The [[https://github.com/genenetwork/gn_server][GnServer REST API]] is built on high performance [[http://elixir-lang.org/][Elixir]] with [[https://github.com/falood/maru][Maru]].
+Mainly the GnServer serves JSON requests, for example to fetch data
+from the database. To get the menu data in YAML you can do something like
+
+: curl localhost:8880/int/menu/main.json|ruby extra/json2yaml.rb
+
+(json2yaml.rb is in the gn_server repo).
+
+