}
/**
- * Converts a query, which may contain one or more gene or transcript
- * identifiers, into a non-redundant list of gene identifiers.
+ * Converts a query, which may contain one or more gene, transcript, or
+ * external (to Ensembl) identifiers, into a non-redundant list of gene
+ * identifiers.
*
* @param accessions
* @return
for (String acc : accessions.split(getAccessionSeparator()))
{
- if (isGeneIdentifier(acc))
- {
- if (!geneIds.contains(acc))
- {
- geneIds.add(acc);
- }
- }
-
/*
- * if given a transcript id, look up its gene parent
+ * First try lookup as an Ensembl (gene or transcript) identifier
*/
- else if (isTranscriptIdentifier(acc))
+ String geneId = new EnsemblLookup(getDomain()).getGeneId(acc);
+ if (geneId != null)
{
- String geneId = new EnsemblLookup(getDomain()).getParent(acc);
- if (geneId != null && !geneIds.contains(geneId))
+ if (!geneIds.contains(geneId))
{
geneIds.add(geneId);
}
}
-
- /*
- * if given a gene or other external name, lookup and fetch
- * the corresponding gene for all model organisms
- */
else
{
+ /*
+ * if given a gene or other external name, lookup and fetch
+ * the corresponding gene for all model organisms
+ */
List<String> ids = new EnsemblSymbol(getDomain(), getDbSource(),
- getDbVersion()).getIds(acc);
- for (String geneId : ids)
+ getDbVersion()).getGeneIds(acc);
+ for (String id : ids)
{
- if (!geneIds.contains(geneId))
+ if (!geneIds.contains(id))
{
- geneIds.add(geneId);
+ geneIds.add(id);
}
}
}
}
/**
- * Attempts to get Ensembl stable identifiers for model organisms for a gene
- * name by calling the xrefs symbol REST service to resolve the gene name.
- *
- * @param query
- * @return
- */
- protected String getGeneIdentifiersForName(String query)
- {
- List<String> ids = new EnsemblSymbol(getDomain(), getDbSource(),
- getDbVersion()).getIds(query);
- if (ids != null)
- {
- for (String id : ids)
- {
- if (isGeneIdentifier(id))
- {
- return id;
- }
- }
- }
- return null;
- }
-
- /**
* Constructs all transcripts for the gene, as identified by "transcript"
* features whose Parent is the requested gene. The coding transcript
* sequences (i.e. with introns omitted) are added to the alignment.