track metadata should be able to override the track's "key"

[rbuels]

When a "key" attribute is set in a track's metadata, I think that should be used for the track label if a key is not already used in the track configuration.

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:11 PM Loraine Guéguen lgueguen@sb-roscoff.fr wrote:

Hi,

I have a JBrowse instance (1.12.1) with >500 tracks. I use faceted trackSelector, and the metadata are stored in a CSV file loaded with JSON attribute "trackMetadata".

Each track has a short name (defined in the CSV file) which is a human-readable name. I would like that this short name is displayed as track "title" when the track is displayed on the browser, that is to say, I'd like that this short name is used as "key" for the track.

Is it possible ? (naming the short-name CSV column as "key" is not working)

And the best would be, for a track, that the key defined in the CSV file overrides the key defined in the trackList.json file.

Looking forward to reading your answers. Thanks

Loraine

[loraine-gueguen]

It would be great to have this in the codebase! Yes, I guess it is better to keep the current behavior by making the "key" in the track metadata only be used if the key in the trackList.conf is missing. I will delete the "key" attributes in my trackList.json. FYI, I send the same question on the apollo list. Deepak Unni answered and created a JBrowse plugin with this functionality. See here: http://gmod.827538.n3.nabble.com/add-track-key-attribute-from-CSV-metadata-file-td4059024.html, https://github.com/deepakunni3/RenameTracks @deepakunni3

[deepakunni3]

@rbuels @loraine-gueguen I agree. If we can have this functionality out of the box, even better 👍

[loraine-gueguen]

When is planned the next JBrowse release ? @rbuels

[rbuels]

@loraine-gueguen we are still setting up our release schedule, so things are a little bit in flux, but right now it's scheduled to be on February 14, and then every two weeks after that

[loraine-gueguen]

@rbuels ok, great! thanks