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dasmoth / dalliance

Interactive web-based genome browser.
http://www.biodalliance.org/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Simplify jumping to genome coordinates! #9

Closed hoersch closed 13 years ago

hoersch commented 13 years ago

The interface for jumping to certain genome coordinates should be simpler - presently, chromosome, start and end need to be changed in three separate fields / pull-downs. The tool should accept both "chr3:10000-20000" and "chr\t10000\t20000" (\t = tabs) strings. Motivation: Commonly, researchers deal with lists of genomic loci that are denoted in one of the two formats above (the latter coming also out of a 3-column Excel format. To quickly inspect such a list of disjoint loci, one copy-paste operation per locus is all it should take to get there (e.g. UCSC enables exactly this). Thanks!

dasmoth commented 13 years ago

Thank you for this suggestion. We've just released Dalliance 0.5.7 which includes a unified field for entering new locations. This accepts a range of separator characters, including all the ones you've suggested, and we hope you find it useful.