FYI - I've moved this discussion back to the issue that started this thread:

https://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-2755


On 25/09/2018 12:18, James Procter wrote:
>
> Awesome - thanks Andy ! 
>
> Looking forward to the shiny new unified endpoint :) ... j.
>
>
> On 25/09/2018 12:14, Andy Yates wrote:
>> Hi Jim and Jalview developers
>>
>> To clarify a few things here that I hope will help your decision process
>>
>> - The medium term idea is to provide Ensembl/EG data through a single 
>> unified interface. We are planning to finish this work on merging the two 
>> REST servers into one URL by Q1 2019 (release 96). We don't envisage 
>> developer having to change anything on their side (though the websites will 
>> not be merging)
>>
>> - There is a pan Ensembl (including EG) id lookup redirect for the website 
>> from http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/id/{id} e.g. 
>> http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/id/ENSG00000139618 and 
>> http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/id/AT3G52430 redirect to their respective 
>> website
>>
>> - ES-Ensembl is unlikely to be a production system until 2020 so holding on 
>> for that may not be the right thing to do
>>
>> Finally I believe the logic you have about UniProt holding division-specific 
>> identifiers is for URL reconstruction. We can provide ID redirection, as 
>> shown above, but any genome location links need to the which site it's 
>> hosted on.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>> On 25 Sep 2018, at 10:14, James Procter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Andy (cc-ed the public jalview-dev list for posterity)
>>> We are wrestling with Jalview's Ensembl abstraction and wondering whether 
>>> the struggle  is worth it. We currently provide two Ensembl 'data sources' 
>>> - Ensembl and EnsemblGenomes - and are also having to do some additional 
>>> work to resolve the EnsemblFungi/etc Division based cross-references that 
>>> Uniprot serve. 
>>> >From a UX perspective it is (IMHO) preferable to have a single 'Ensembl' 
>>> >datasource for resolution of any identifier, but because there are 
>>> >separate endpoints, under the hood we still need to distinguish 
>>> >identifiers for divisions held at EnsemblGenomes.  
>>> I seem to remember you mentioning that there was a plan that once 
>>> ES-Ensembl was up and running, EnsemblGenomes would probably disappear (or 
>>> just proxy to the same endpoint as Ensembl). Is that still going to be the 
>>> case ?  If yes, and it is going to happen in the next year, then that might 
>>> help us decide the most appropriate technical solution here.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>>
>>> PS. It just occured to me that the only reason Uniprot holds 
>>> division-specific Ensembl identifiers is that it allows the Uniprot web 
>>> site to provide web-links to the different division front-ends. I guess 
>>> that reason is good enough for Jalview to do the same - but the multiple 
>>> end-point discussion still stands ;)
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