Re: [Treebase-devel] Unified search

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

What you describe sounds similar in concept to NCBI's GQuery, so you  
might want to look at that:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/

	-hilmar

On May 27, 2010, at 4:06 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:

> Ok, so, about the searching thing. Here's what I think we could do:
>
> * we create a separate page, something like "meta search", or "simple
> search" or whatever
>
> * on that page is just a single search box, a la google
>
> * you stick in anything you like and press the button
>
> * with javascript, we then compose all phylows queries we currently
> support, i.e. match against taxon names, taxon IDs, study IDs, etc.,
>
> * we fire those requests as AJAX calls
>
> * on the server side, we return the results structured as rss (but
> maybe translate them to JSON)
>
> * as the AJAX responses are coming in, we count the number of items in
> each result feed
>
> * we can then report how many hits there were on each supported query
>
> * and we can make expandable boxes to actually list those hits, or
> make the hit reports clickable to take you to our normal results pages
>
> It seems to me that this would be the easiest way to support this  
> functionality.
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Rutger Vos <rut...@gm...>  
> wrote:
>> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/05/treebase-ii-makes-me-pull-my-hair-out.html
>>
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>>
>
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>
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