Hi Bob, great to know you like the new version :)
The gene report page on dcc.icgc.org is a compilation of several databases federated on the fly. However ensembl provides a backbone of data integration. The links are configurable and it is a good point that we should provide a link to the source somewhere. The 'count' button is definitely planned but this time it is a little bit more tricky with the advanced federation features so we may need more time to implement it properly. a Arek Kasprzyk Director, Bioinformatics Operations and Principal Investigator Ontario Institute for Cancer Research MaRS Centre, South Tower 101 College Street, Suite 800 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 0A3 Tel: 416-673-8559 Toll-free: 1-866-678-6427 www.oicr.on.ca Administrative Assistant: [email protected] This message and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by anyone other than the person for whom it was originally intended is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Opinions, conclusions or other information contained in this message may not be that of the organization. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob MacCallum [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BioMart Users] Quick thoughts on 0.8 Hi BioMarters, (BioMartyrs?) I looked at the cancer genome biomart and it looks really great and the text field/menu completion stuff works great. The three levels of interface complexity are very nice. Overall, it's great to see things like "dataset" and "database" eliminated from the end user's experience. The martreport pages are a useful addition but I wondered why on the icgc site the gene reports don't have any links to Ensembl, for example. Are such link-outs still configurable in 0.8+? A site (like us) with its own genome browser would want to be careful not to confuse the user with two subtly different gene report pages (hopefully showing the same information though!). Maybe a reasonably prominent "View this information in the source database (Database_name)" link/button or similar would work? I also feel with the advanced interface that a "count" button is lacking, but that is not dampening my enthusiasm about having this on VectorBase sometime this year I hope. Congratulations on a great job, and sorry if I missed any formal feedback questionnaires or focus groups. cheers, Bob. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.biomart.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.biomart.org/mailman/listinfo/users
