hgSearch vs Old search

[saurabh]

Hi , 

I have an old instance running from (2020) and I updated it to the latest (beta). 

Good search is quite important to our users and I find features in older search not working. Earlier search results were simple but easier to navigate, e.g put in the "searchDescription" from the .ra files to search results. 

I am particularly interested in the gene description search where another table provides the gene description and the search results returned have the search term highlighted in bold. This seems to have gone and now it just prints the ids and coordinates. 

E.g if I search the word "drought" then the description entry from the xref table was in the output , something like "drought resistant protein" . 

my trackDb.ra entry below -  

searchName GenesDesc
searchTable Genes
query select chrom,txStart,txEnd,name from %s where name2 like '%s%%'
xrefTable geneDescription
searchType fuzzy
xrefQuery select geneName,description from %s where description like '%%%s%%'
searchPriority 10
searchDescription Gene description search

It would be great to have this feature back. Thanks!

[Christopher Lee]

Hi saurabh,

Do you happen to have the commit id of your old instance? This should not have changed with the creation of hgSearch and if it did it was unintentional. Also can you clarify this is a custom built track with a custom built additional table containing descriptions? Or does this come from a UCSC generated track/table?

Thanks,

Christopher Lee

UCSC Genomics Institute

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