You can write your own DAS server, then add parameters to attach this DAS server to the URL, specifying some sort of ID to the track name which will trigger the highlighting when the DAS server sees it.<div><br></div><div>
Not really easy to implement, but possible. I've done something similar recently. <br><br>I wonder if there is a simpler way...</div><div><br>cheers</div><div>Max</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Oliver, Gavin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin.oliver@almacgroup.com">gavin.oliver@almacgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I am trying to link via a simple URL from an internal
webpage to the Ensembl genome browser. I want to be able to link to a given
chromosomal region. This is not a problem. What I am wondering is whether
there is any way of ‘highlighting’ my region of interest.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">For example if I am interested in human chromosome X bases 50-100,
I would like to show bases 1 – 150 but have 50-100 highlighted in some
manner (similar to how a blast result is shown in the browser as a red bar).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Is this possible or am I pushing my luck? </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial">Best, </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial">Gavin</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial"></span></font></p>
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