[ensembl-dev] API function for searching by gene name changed?

[Adam Witney]

On 4. 10. 2013 17:38, Dan Staines wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 05:00 PM, Dan Staines wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll look into it and get back to you.
>
> I'm not entirely sure why this worked before, but you should try
> switching to using fetch_all_by_display_label instead of
> fetch_all_by_external_name. The former looks explicitly at the gene name
> assigned to the gene, whilst the latter looks through all associated
> cross-references, of which the gene name isn't strictly one in this case
> (Ensembl & EnsemblGenomes diverge in usage here for various reasons).
>
> Let me know if this fixes your problems.

Hi Dan,

Yes, that seems to work now

Thanks

Adam