GBrowes: Feature names (DAS) may not start with a dash(’-')
September 29th, 2009
Dear Lazyweb,
I just spent 5 hours learning that if you supply features to GBrowse 2 via DAS (for example with my custom python based pyDasD server), their names must not start with a dash (’-').
Otherwise the (weird, backwards compatibility) heuristic in Bio::Graphics::Panel->_do_add_track will silently eat the first feature, because it thinks it’s an option.
Hooray for in band data transmission, I’d say.
So long,
Flo