Hi Jake, I believe you just need to specify the search type in your URL (e.g. type=DNA). It should then work.
Please see this previous mailing list question for extra details: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2006-June/011020.html - Greg On 5/6/11 8:28 PM, jake lin wrote: > Hi, > > The lab I am supporting would like to link our web content repository to > UCSC BLAT or NCBI BLAST web functions. It is an internal web so the usage > will be quite light, couple times a day at most, looking up oligo sequence > by creating these oligo sequences into html links, setting the query > parameter. > > Our preference is to use BLAT, so much faster and the nicety of getting the > results on the genome browser. Also the insillico PCR function. > > As the BLAT web ui loads, I see that I can construct the organism, and sub > db preference within the url/browser links: > ie loading C. elegans and db ce4 > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgBlat?org=C.%20elegans&db=ce4 > > But when I try passing in a sequence, looks to be userSeq > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgBlat?command=start&org=C.%20elegans&db=ce4&userSeq=AATTAATTAATTAATTAATT > > Here is the output from webpage: > > Sorry, didn't find input variable type Probably the web page didn't mean to > call this program. > Am I doing something silly? > Looks like the insillico PCR allows passing in sequence, as does the BLAST. > > Thanks, > Jake > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
