Hi Chuck, While you can eliminate the "clade", "org", "hgt.suggest" and "pix" parts of the URL, you will always need to specify the "db" since our CGIs require this term to know which database to search. Otherwise, our CGIs would need to search almost 100 databases and countless tracks for a particular search term, which would take a very long time.
I hope this information is helpful. Please feel free to contact the mail list again if you require further assistance. Best, Mary ------------------ Mary Goldman UCSC Bioinformatics Group On 1/6/11 1:50 PM, Borromeo, Charles wrote: > Hello, > We are attempting to augment our search tool within our website to map to > concepts found within our mirror of the Genome Browser. The search tool will > allow our users to execute queries containing gene names (IRF6) or concepts > (cleft palate). The following cgi URL allows me to execute this query > against the browser: > > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?clade=mammal&org=Human&db=hg19&position=cleft&hgt.suggest=&pix=800&Submit=submit > > Where the search term in this case is 'cleft'. I noticed that I needed to > specify the organism and assembly as part of the cgi parameters. Is there > some way to leave these blank? In most cases our users will be looking for > human data, in other cases they may be starting with mouse, zebrafish, etc. > > Thanks, > Chuck Borromeo > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
