I think the way the GenomicSequence was coded for the snp sequence 
attribute was to add a newline character before and after the sequence. 
This was put in to help in the formatting I think when upstream and 
downstream sequence were chosen (ie) when you choose snp sequence and 
upstream and downstream you would get somthing like:

"upstream_seq"/n
"A/G"/n
"downstream_seq"

If you get the data out using the FASTA formatter it all comes out nicely 
but I agree this all very HACKY and messes up the formatting for simple 
tab-separated format. The adding of new lines should have been handled in 
the FASTA formatter itself.

We will look into this and fix on branch 0_4 and/or 0_5 upcoming release

thanks for spotting it

cheers
Damian


On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, David Withers wrote:

> When I send the following query:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE Query>
> <Query virtualSchemaName="default" count="0"><Dataset
> name="mmusculus_snp"><Attribute name="chr_name" /><Attribute
> name="chrom_start" /><Filter name="chr_name" value="17" /><Filter
> name="chrom_end" value="33527038" /><Filter name="chrom_start"
> value="33518969" /></Dataset><Dataset
> name="mmusculus_genomic_sequence"><Attribute name="snp"
> /></Dataset><Links source="mmusculus_snp"
> target="mmusculus_genomic_sequence" defaultLink="snp" /></Query>
> 
> to http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?query= the results I get
> back are:
> 
> 17    33519098        
> A/G
>       
> 17    33519176        
> A/G
>       
> etc, etc.
> 
> So, I'm getting
> 
> "17"/t"33519098"/t/n"A/G"/n/t
> 
> but I was expecting
> 
> "17"/t"33519098"/t"A/G"/t
> 
> Are the extra new line characters correct? I currently process the query
> results line by line but maybe this approach is too simplistic.
> 
> David.
> -- 
> David Withers
> School of Computer Science, University of Manchester,
> Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
> Tel: +44(0)161 275 0145
> 

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