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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks Victor!<br>
<br>
While I'm glad to have a solution for this, I think it's probably
better if GBrowse just allowed periods in its search.<br>
Otherwise this issue is going to come up again and again with new
users, since lots of people use periods when naming transcripts of a
gene.<br>
<br>
-Jeltje<br>
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Victor wrote:
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cite="mid7.0.0.16.2.20080911125116.03d8c3c0@aardwolf.bio.indiana.edu"
type="cite">At 12:44 PM 9/11/2008, Jeltje van Baren wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi Scott and Josh
<br>
<br>
I tried mRNA:CG11372.a and that doesn't work either (you can try for
yourself at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://mblab.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse/fly5"><http://mblab.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse/fly5></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mblab.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse/fly5">http://mblab.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse/fly5</a>).
<br>
I did add mRNA to the automatic classes, but that doesn't help.
<br>
<br>
CG11372.a is a correct ID in MB5, the track I that's shown on this
browser. The corresponding FlyBase gene is CG11372-RA.
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<br>
A had a lot of trouble with IDs and names which
<br>
were including dots - when you submit it for a search,
<br>
GBrowse was assuming that dot means that you submit
<br>
something like 'method.source' combo (in terms of GFF2).
<br>
So we just agreed to avoid use of such stuff at FlyBase
<br>
and you can notice that we use dashes instead (CG11372-RA).
<br>
Maybe this problem can be somehow avoided or bypassed, but
<br>
it is simpler not to use risky syntax - saves a lot of time..
<br>
And I don't remember what I found at the time after debugging -
<br>
it could be not GBrowse per se, but something from BioPerl.
<br>
<br>
V. Strelets
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FlyBase Consortium
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