On 7 Mar 2011, at 12:57, Thomas Down wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Andy Jenkinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > We should be under no illusions though that people are going to be able to > implement this easily without reading the documentation carefully, no matter > which option is chosen. In particular, I can foresee servers not interpreting > the "type" filter appropriately, being likely to process the adjacent query > then apply the type filter, which would be wrong. I have a feeling most > sources implement the type filter as a passive "post filter" rather than an > active one. I can tell you right now that it is going to be really quite > difficult for me to implement "adjacent" correctly for the ASTD > gene/transcript/exon sources, and I suspect the same will be true for > retrofitting lots of other sources. > > I appreciate this is tough. However, given the existence of UCSC-like > "super-sources" containing basically unrelated types, with potentially quite > different densities and dispositions, I find it hard to see how this is going > to be useful without some kind of interaction with the types filter along the > lines of what I've proposed.
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