REST api plus Gemeni

An exercise in querying different REST apis, and pulling them together for composing queries to Gemini for hypothesis generation.

The idea

Imagine you're looking to think about generating hypotheses: you're studying a disease, you have some protein that's implicated, you sense that there's something worth pursuing. But how do you flesh this out into a larger hypothesis that's (a) plausible and (b) supported by some other evidence? It's 2025, let's try to off-load some of the literature search and curation to LLMs.

How to run it?

1. Install uv
2. clone the repo, cd into the repo
3. run uv sync to re-create the venv
4. configure credentials to use the Google Gemeni API (e.g setting up GOOGLE_API_KEY as an environment var)
5. use the notebook in src/drive)_hypothesis_generation.ipynb

In src

• module for REST api IO and data transformation
• module for packaging and querying the Gemini API directly

In tests

• Minimal set of unit tests to ensure the various components work.
• The Gemeni queries should probably should be mocked, or at least have the response interface better defined so I can avoid hitting the api in tests.