Links to genome browsers

[charles-plessy]

Hi Jayson,

In the expression table panel, it would be useful if the feature field could be rendered as a URL, where feature name (often a gene symbol or a genome coordinate) would be pasted to a base URL provided by the user, either through a new field or through a configuration file.

For example, the base URL could be http://fantom.gsc.riken.jp/zenbu/gLyphs/#config=2Z4giXeUDRQulVO5sw_x8C;loc=, which would be used to point to a genome browser view such centered on feature names such as chr10:104151762..104164391+.

Cheers,

Charles

[antonkratz]

• Parsing feature names and converting them into strings that can be inserted into base URLs is problematic because a) the feature name is free-form and b) URL format of the target website (Zenbu, UCSC...) could be anything.
• After discussing with Jayson, the best solution is probably to have one more column with an explicit URL for each feature.

[Hypercubed]

If someone is willing to supply a data file with an additional "url" column I am willing to implement this.