[DAS] ###ID###'s and Links in Ensembl DAS

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:12:22 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tony Cox wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, James Freeman wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> +>To whom it may concern,
> 
> that would be me ;)
> 
> +>
> +>If I am viewing a genomic region in Ensembl's contigview, and I have
> +>successfully created viewable annotations served from an LDAS annotation
> +>server, the next logical question is about the link provided in the
> +>popup window from Ensembl.
> 
> The Ensembl browser is not (nor claims to be) a fully compliant DAS browser - as
> your current problems with LINK tags shows. Ensembl does not use the LINK tag
> although there is a way to attach a URL to any DAS source feature that you
> browse in Ensembl. It is probably something that we should add.  

It sounds like to me that it would be really good to add the LINK stuff
inside Ensembl.


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