#263 DAS/2 - Can't load gff files

[Tony Di Sera]

For quite a while now (at least 6 months?) I have been unable to get gff files to load in DAS/2. Here is the error from the catalina.out:

Error loading file: centromeres.gff
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:78)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:72)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.parsers.GFFParser.parse(GFFParser.java:307)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.parsers.GFFParser.parse(GFFParser.java:283)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.util.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:68)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.util.ServerUtils.loadAnnotFile(ServerUtils.java:560)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.util.ServerUtils.indexOrLoadFile(ServerUtils.java:506)
at com.affymetrix.genometryImpl.util.ServerUtils.loadGenoPubAnnotsFromFile(ServerUtils.java:394)
at com.affymetrix.genometry.servlets.GenometryDas2Servlet.loadGenomesFromGNomEx(GenometryDas2Servlet.java:890)
at com.affymetrix.genometry.servlets.GenometryDas2Servlet.init(GenometryDas2Servlet.java:326)</init></init>