[ensembl-dev] VEP web interface problems

[Will McLaren]

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback.

On 15 July 2016 at 04:02, Watal M. Iwasaki <heavy.watal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using VEP on grch37.ensembl.org with Safari, Mac 10.11 and have 3
> suggestions/questions.
>
> 1) When "Find co-located known variants" is disabled, the checkboxes below
> are hidden and `--pubmed` is left enabled by default. I think it is
> counter-intuitive.
>

Thanks for spotting this - we'll look to get it fixed.


>
> 2) It would be helpful if the users can check "Command line equivalent"
> before throwing a job.
>

This would be reasonably difficult to implement, and I think most users are
not interested in the command line being used - the current way it works is
provided for those who would like to transition from using the web
interface to using the command line script.


>
> 3) Is there a way to download a result in gzipped VEP? The following
> command did not work: `wget -O- "
> http://grch37.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Download/Tools/VEP?format=vep;tl=***"
> | gzip >result.vep.gz`
>

Unfortunately results can currently only be downloaded uncompressed.

Regards

Will McLaren
Ensembl Variation


>
> Thanks,
>
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