[ensembl-dev] getting the entrez gene id from an ensembl record

[Andreas Kahari]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Bert Overduin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Andy Jenkinson <andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk>wrote:
> 
> > On 2 Dec 2010, at 13:52, Glenn Proctor wrote:
> > >  I'm not 100% happy with the
> > > "get_all_object_xrefs()" name either though, so keep the suggestions
> > > coming ...
> >
> > $gene->get_all_gene_xrefs()  etc?
> >
> > At the risk of adding a large number of redundant methods, theoretically
> > this is possible:
> > $transcript->get_all_gene_xrefs();
> > $gene->get_all_transcript_xrefs();
> > etc
> >
> 
> Personally I find this the most transparent from a user perspective ....

Notice that today, the get_all_DBLinks() method does not get gene xrefs
when called on a transcript object.  We will not change the semantics of
the method, only add an alias name for it.


Andreas

> 
> Cheers,
> Bert
> 
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