Hi Arek, Thanks for the info. 'Count' is not a dealbreaker!
Assuming that DAS support (location and (gene) symbol based?) will be coming at some point, 0.8 with its martreport pages will be a likely successor our home-brewed GDAV annotation server and DAS source, and maybe some other ad-hoc things we host at VectorBase. cheers, Bob. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Arek Kasprzyk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
