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investigate using mygene.info in IGB

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          • Status: Open (View Workflow)
          • Priority: Major
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            mygene.info is a ReST web service that looks up gene information for many species.

            According to tweets from Titus Brown, it's very reliable.

            Let's find out what the service can do and how it can improve user experience in IGB.

            Questions:

            • How rich are the data? Might be richest for human, mouse, animal genomes. Support for major plant genomes (corn, rice, Arabidopsis, etc) may be less good.
            • How robust is it?

            Ideas:

            • If it can return genomic coordinates, we can use it to zoom and scroll to locations in IGB
            • If it can return Entrez gene ids or other NCBI identifiers, we can use it to retrieve this info and create linkouts to NCBI databases such as PubMed
            • If it can return lots of meta-data about genes, we can use it to drive richer details view on genes

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                    ann.loraine Ann Loraine
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                    ann.loraine Ann Loraine
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