<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The url patterns for getting to specific gene pages used to be species-specific. Thankfully, the returned to being generic, such that this pattern works with human, mouse and many other Ensembl identifiers:<div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/id/">http://www.ensembl.org/id/</a></span><b style="text-align: left; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><abbr class="idInfo" title="This identifier follows the pattern: ^((ENS[A-Z]*[FPTG]\d{11}(\.\d+)?)|(FB\w{2}\d{7})|(Y[A-Z]{2}\d{3}[a-zA-Z](\-[A-Z])?)|([A-Z_a-z0-9]+(\.)?(t)?(\d+)?([a-z])?))$" style="font-weight: normal; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; ">$id</abbr></b></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;">But, there are still specific url patters for plants, bacteria and fungi… as far as I can tell. These IDs have to paired with one of the following:</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://bacteria.ensembl.org/id/">http://bacteria.ensembl.org/id/</a></span><b style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><abbr class="idInfo" title="This identifier follows the pattern: ^((ENS[A-Z]*[FPTG]\d{11}(\.\d+)?)|(FB\w{2}\d{7})|(Y[A-Z]{2}\d{3}[a-zA-Z](\-[A-Z])?)|([A-Z_a-z0-9]+(\.)?(t)?(\d+)?([a-z])?))$" style="font-weight: normal; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; ">$id</abbr></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/id/">http://plants.ensembl.org/id/</a></span><b style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><abbr class="idInfo" title="This identifier follows the pattern: ^((ENS[A-Z]*[FPTG]\d{11}(\.\d+)?)|(FB\w{2}\d{7})|(Y[A-Z]{2}\d{3}[a-zA-Z](\-[A-Z])?)|([A-Z_a-z0-9]+(\.)?(t)?(\d+)?([a-z])?))$" style="font-weight: normal; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; ">$id</abbr></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://fungi.ensembl.org/id/">http://fungi.ensembl.org/id/</a></span><b style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><abbr class="idInfo" title="This identifier follows the pattern: ^((ENS[A-Z]*[FPTG]\d{11}(\.\d+)?)|(FB\w{2}\d{7})|(Y[A-Z]{2}\d{3}[a-zA-Z](\-[A-Z])?)|([A-Z_a-z0-9]+(\.)?(t)?(\d+)?([a-z])?))$" style="font-weight: normal; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; ">$id</abbr></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><abbr class="idInfo" title="This identifier follows the pattern: ^((ENS[A-Z]*[FPTG]\d{11}(\.\d+)?)|(FB\w{2}\d{7})|(Y[A-Z]{2}\d{3}[a-zA-Z](\-[A-Z])?)|([A-Z_a-z0-9]+(\.)?(t)?(\d+)?([a-z])?))$" style="font-weight: normal; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; cursor: help; "><br></abbr></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Ideally, there would be a single pattern that could accept and redirect to the right pattern or page for ANY valid Ensembl identifier. Does this exist? Any plans to host one? Any common workarounds?</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Thanks!</span></font></div><div>
- Alex
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