[ensembl-dev] Universal URL for Ensembl Linkouts?

[Alexander Pico]

The url patterns for getting to specific gene pages used to be species-specific. Thankfully, the returned to being generic, such that this pattern works with human, mouse and many other Ensembl identifiers:

http://www.ensembl.org/id/$id

But, there are still specific url patters for plants, bacteria and fungi… as far as I can tell. These IDs have to paired with one of the following:

http://bacteria.ensembl.org/id/$id
http://plants.ensembl.org/id/$id
http://fungi.ensembl.org/id/$id

Ideally, there would be a single pattern that could accept and redirect to the right pattern or page for ANY valid Ensembl identifier. Does this exist?  Any plans to host one?  Any common workarounds?

Thanks!
 - Alex

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