Arek Kasprzyk wrote:
> 
> On 17 May 2006, at 17:15, David Withers wrote:
> 
>> Arek Kasprzyk wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> The 'Upstream flank' box seems to have a default value of 100 but this
>> doesn't seem to be specified anywhere in the config files. Other
>> filters, such as 'gene_chrom_end', have a defaultValue attribute
>> specified in the FilterDescription.
> 
> Hi David,
> apologies, I misunderstood your question first time round. You are right.
> This value indeed should be specified in the config file if the 'default'
> is to be displayed. We'll add this to the config.

Would it make sense to also change the type of this filter from list to
text? It's presented as a text box on the web site but my gui creates a
drop down box because it's a list type filter.

>>
>> I am still confused as to how you know that you need to add the
>> upstream_flank filter if the user has selected the coding_gene_flank
>> attribute. Is there a set of rules that I am missing?
>>
> 
> probably not. I simply pointed you to where these things live but
> it is possible that this particular bit is hardcoded in our client
> somewhere
> in which case it  is an oversight on our part. It is probably better is
> someone
> more familiar with MartView could comment and disprove my 'theories' if
> necessary.
> Unless you hear to the contrary from someone else you can assume for now
> that in 0.4
> this is a hardcoded set of rules for this particular filter. In this
> indeed is the case this
> will be better formalized for 0.5
> 

I've found a biologist to tell me when I need to specify
upstream/downstream flank values so I'll hard code this for now.

Thanks for your help,

David.

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David Withers
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester,
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