Feature request: sorted GFF listing paired with selection(s)

[SamCT]

Currently I have a massive GFF file containing a lot of redundant and insignificant protein sequences to my project. It would be extremely efficient if I could view this GFF file as a list, select the gene/protein(s) of interest and have those be highlighted on the track, instead of displaying all that is listed on the track -- I understand I could create a new .bam file but in such a massive list this could be troublesome to parse through.

[rbuels]

that's an interesting idea, what kind of menus or clickable buttons would you envision JBrowse might add to make this possible? Trying to imagine what the UI would look like for this.

[nathanhaigh]

Perhaps the new search dialog in the upcoming release would suit some of your needs @SamCT?

Have a look at the screenshot here: https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/pull/1101

[cmdcolin]

This could be a good use of the JBrowse "filter API", sort of an underused but cool feature

https://github.com/cmdcolin/filterplugin

Note that this link to the filterplugin is just a toy example of how filtering API can be used, it's not a plugin built for any purpose.

Making a list of features to choose for filtering on would probably be pretty easy in this sense

[nathanhaigh]

@cmdcolin this has given me some ideas for other things...thanks for pointing this out!