Re: [Gmod-ajax] jbrowse deep linking

[Mitch S. <mit...@be...>]

On 08/18/2009 10:24 AM, Ian Holmes wrote:
>> I was hoping for something like
>> http://www.jbrowse.org/ucsc/hg19/?coordinates=chr1:119777910-120173410&track=RefSeqGenes&track=CpGIslands&track=ORFeomeClones.
>> Possible?
>>
> Currently the way to do this is via the Javascript API.
>

No, this is currently implemented in index.html (take a look at 
index.html to see how it works).  Andrew's "coordinates" is implemented 
as "loc", which can be anything that you can put in the location box 
(e.g., chrom:start..end, or a specific feature name/id if the feature 
name/id is in a track that has "autocomplete" set).  And there's also a 
"tracks" query parameter, which gets a comma-separated list of track 
identifiers.

e.g.,
http://jbrowse.org/ucsc/hg19/?loc=chr1:100417735..100505485&tracks=refseq_genes,human_mrnas

Implementing a nice way for users to generate those URLs is still a 
to-do, though.  Actually, it's a bit harder since we made this the 
responsibility of the embedder.  But I have an idea for how to do it.

Mitch