Collect information about smarter database status and returns values in a list
About SMARTER database info endpoint
The info endpoint contains information about the status of the database
| Keyword | Content |
| last_updated | when the SMARTER database was last updated |
| version | SMARTER database version (see the README in ftp site) |
| plink_specie | track the specie specific parameters to generate genotypes using plink |
| working_assemblies | the source of variant positions and genotypes |
Those information are required to understand if your genotypes are updated or not. For example, if the SMARTER database current version and last_updated are more recent than your genotype file, you could retrive information on samples not included in the genotype file. In such case, you have to download a more recent copy from SMARTER database from the FTP site. The plink_specie is a nested list which contains the plink species options used to generate the genotype data. if you want to modify a genotype file to be compatible to the SMARTER database you may want to use the same specie options