Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 2.10.0
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Component/s: data retrieval services, gui design issue
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Environment:All
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Epic Link:
Description
The Sequence Fetcher is not terribly friendly and requires you to know a specific ID for your protein. This often means you need to go to uniprot to find the ID which kind of defeats the purpose of the Seq Fetcher as once you're in uniprot you may as well get the sequence from there rather than just the ID.
For most biologists, I imagine, it would be much easier to be able to specify a protein by name (and species) and for Jalview to do the hardwork to find the matching protein IDs. Maybe something built around the Uniprot querying system could be a start? e.g.
http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=name:filaggrin&format=tab
As a step in this direction it would be nice to simplify the list of databases to query as even most bioinformacians wouldn't know what half of them are.
For most biologists, I imagine, it would be much easier to be able to specify a protein by name (and species) and for Jalview to do the hardwork to find the matching protein IDs. Maybe something built around the Uniprot querying system could be a start? e.g.
http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=name:filaggrin&format=tab
As a step in this direction it would be nice to simplify the list of databases to query as even most bioinformacians wouldn't know what half of them are.
Attachments
Issue Links
- depends on
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JAL-2071 Generic Free Text Search Architecture refactoring
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- Closed
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