[ensembl-dev] Retrieve exon number with Ensembl REST API

Matteo Accetturo matteo.accetturo at uniba.it
Mon Apr 3 17:54:55 BST 2017


Dear Matthew,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Looking forward for the next Ensembl release!
Best,

Matteo Accetturo 

> Il giorno 03 apr 2017, alle ore 16:30, Matthew Laird <lairdm at ebi.ac.uk> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello Matteo,
> 
> You have indeed spotted a bug in the REST API, if the requested overlap region is completely within the exon's start and end it isn't currently returned. This bug is only occurring with exon features.
> 
> The fix will be available in Ensembl 89 released in May. In the meantime a work around would be to either expand your overlap window or for any gene/transcripts returned do a lookup using the expand option to find any decedent exons.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
>> On 03/04/17 14:20, Matteo Accetturo wrote:
>> Dear Ensembl team,
>> I am trying to retrieve the exon number with the GET overlap/region/:species/:region REST API Endpoint, however the results are not always as expected. For example:
>> http://rest.ensembl.org/overlap/region/human/1:179564700-179564705?feature=gene;feature=exon;content-type=application/json
>> should retrieve exon number 2, while it doesn’t retrieve any exon.
>> Am I doing any mistake?
>> Thanks,
>> Matteo.
>> 
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