added new function call to getSimilarThingsForAListOfPhenotypes, which wraps the search functionality in owlsim. still incomplete.
added a couple more flags for testing for fetchingSimilar JSON
changed hardcoded metric to be combinedScore for fetchThingsSimilarToAListOfPhenotypes
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into portal-candidate-20140110

merging updates from January 10-13...