[ensembl-dev] thank you for your flexibility

[Dan Sheppard]

Hi ido,

Thanks for the feedback: always good to know something's proving useful.

We strip off any substring "chr" in the chromosome name before attaching 
that feature because of the different conventions for chromosome name. 
We also attempt to transparently handle the difference between 
0-based-semi-open and 1-based-closed co-ordinate systems, though there 
it's much harder to cover all the edge cases for this for exotic data files.

Dan.

On 04/09/13 11:22, Ido Tamir wrote:
> Dear ensembl developers,
>
> I just want to express my gratitude for your flexibility regarding the parsing of chromosome names.
> I am able to display my datasets with the URL method although the chromosome names don't conform
> to your naming scheme (i.e. they are UCSC like "chrXYZ"). By some magic the bam and bigwig files are still
> displayed correctly. I was pleasantly surprised.
>
> thank you very much,
> ido