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Display IDs instead of gene names when loading .gff3 and .gtf files
Hi @kcleal!
First of all, I don't quite know if what I am commenting on is really an error or if I am asking for the implementation of a new functionality... Thank you (again) in advance for your effort and help.
From an Intel PC with Ubuntu 22.04, when I load .gff3 or .gtf files to see the gene names under my reads, what GW shows from both files are the values from the "gene_id" column instead of the "gene_name" column. Therefore, what is displayed on the screen are alphanumeric identifiers like "ENSG00000141510" instead of "TP53". Would it be possible to make some adjustment to change that behavior? It's already hard enough to remember the names of the genes one works with, if now they also need to be recognized by IDs with more than 12 digits...... :'-(