is there a way to organize a large number of datasets?

[jvera888]

Hi, I'd like to organize a large number of datasets (over 50 bacterial genomes) by category (e.g. family, genus, soil, waste, etc.) if possible, but I could not find the means to do this within the docs. I add the datasets programmatically, so ideally a way to do this within the 'jbrowse_conf.json' file under the "datasets" key would be ideal. Does this feature already exist? If not, would it be easy-ish to implement? I've attached an example jbrowse_conf.json, why not? jbrowse_conf.json.txt

Many Thanks! Cris

[cmdcolin]

can you clarify what type of organization it is you want to see? there probably isn't really too much of an organization scheme available. possibly, encoding all that info into the "name" field could be a simple approach

[jvera888]

can you clarify what type of organization it is you want to see? there probably isn't really too much of an organization scheme available. possibly, encoding all that info into the "name" field could be a simple approach

I was thinking a way to add text headers between the dataset links, although any means of grouping dataset links under categories would work for me. Maybe adding another optional key such as 'category' to group them? I don't know how unreasonable it would be to implement, though. I'll try modifying the 'name' keys to contain sortable group info in the meantime. Cris