Better handling of concatenated variant descriptions

[leicray]

Describe the bug Some users submit concatenated variant descriptions such as: NM_001277115.1:c.10286G>A|NC_000007.13|GRCh37|NC_000007.13:g.21847621G>A|chr7-21847621-G-A

Within this string there are three (potentially) valid variant descriptions:

• NM_001277115.1:c.10286G>A
• NC_000007.13:g.21847621G>A
• chr7-21847621-G-A

which represent the same variant, and two strings that are not valid descriptions:

• NC_000007.13
• GRCh37

Submission of this concatenated string generates an ERROR message to the VariantValidator admins even though the validation process completes, albeit with two validation_warning messages on screen

Expected behaviour There is a need for clearer on-screen error messages and for the ERROR message to admins to be suppressed somehow. I suspect that the solution lies in parsing the input to look for pipe (|) characters.

[Peter-J-Freeman]

@leicray . This is not the submission of a concatenated variant description. It is the result of folks trying to view data via the UCSC genome browser. Something is wrong with VV web. I need to do some work on the tool anyway. For example, I wrote the code for accurately displaying r. descriptions on my old broken laptop. I need to see if I can get this off and then see if I can correct this issue. Leave it with me