Greetings, I'm developing a plugin for the Savant genome browser to allow it to access SQL data directly. Naturally, the most useful SQL database is the one at UCSC, so I want the plugin to work with that. Everything seems to work well enough, but I would like to make the experience a little friendlier for end-users.
In particular, when a user goes to UCSC's table browser web-page, the tracks are grouped together nicely (e.g. "Mapping and Sequencing Tracks", "Genes and Gene Prediction Tracks", etc.), and each of the tracks has a human-friendly name (e.g. "RefSeq Genes"). Is this information stored in the publicly-accessible MySQL database? I would like to present the user with friendly track names and a hierarchy similar to the table browser page, but given the information I can retrieve from MySQL, all I can give them is a long list of cryptically-named SQL tables. Am I overlooking something within the MySQL database? Or is the information which provides the hierarchy and the friendly names coming from outside of MySQL? Thanks, Eric Smith University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
