[ensembl-dev] searching for genes by description field?

[Andy Yates]

Hi Adam,

Currently we do not support this. The actual code which implements this search is in the DBEntryAdaptor and would require edits in there. I can see a point in having this kind of functionality so we will put it on our to-do list.

Andy

On 13 Feb 2013, at 10:24, Adam Witney <awitney at sgul.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a method to search the Gene description field. I am currently using fetch_all_by_external_name, but this only works if the gene has been annotated with gyrA:
> 
> my $genes = $dba->get_GeneAdaptor()->fetch_all_by_external_name('gyrA');
> 
> What I would like to be able to do is search the data returned by the description method ($gene->description), is this possible? eg something like this:
> 
> my $genes = $dba->get_GeneAdaptor()->fetch_all_by_description('%gyrase%');
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam
> 
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