<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Michael</div><div><br></div><div>We deprecated this function because of its poor support for other features and it's sometimes non-exact definition of mid points. Our regulation team has a far better version we hope to integrate into 75. If we pull it off you'll be able to perform this query on every feature class. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div><br></div><div>Andy<br><br>Sent from my mobile.</div><div><br>On 14 Jan 2014, at 01:17, Michael Yourshaw <<a href="mailto:myourshaw@ucla.edu">myourshaw@ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">I see that the perl API GeneAdaptor in version 74 fetch_nearest_Gene_by_Feature has been deprecated.<div><br></div><div>Is there a recommended alternative for this function? 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