Understand the GFF parser

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The EasyImport GFF parser within GenomeHubs is designed to accommodate the diversity of real-world GFF files. This adds some complexity to the configuration of a gene model import but allows the parser to read values into an Ensembl database from the varied locations in which gene names and descriptions can be specified in a valid GFF file and to repair many of the problems that can render a GFF invalid.
A full description of the GFF parser and other import options is available at easy-import.readme.io​
Parsing valid GFF
STABLE_IDS
An Ensembl database stores the primary name for each gene, transcript and translation in a stable_id field. This should be a stable identifier that will continue to be used if the same gene is subsequently imported from an updated assembly/annotation.
The first step in importing gene models is to identify the features/attributes to use as a sources of stable IDs, these are typically the values of the ID or Name attributes from the corresponding feature (Gene, mRNA or CDS):
the syntax follows the general pattern feature->attribute
the /(.+)/ is a per regular expression to match the entire value of the selected attribute
$ nano ~/genomehubs/v1/ensembl/conf/database.ini
[GENE_STABLE_IDS]
    GFF = [ gene->ID /(.+)/ ]
[TRANSCRIPT_STABLE_IDS]
    GFF = [ mRNA->ID /(.+)/ ]
[TRANSLATION_STABLE_IDS]
    GFF = [ CDS->ID /(.+)/ ]

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Parsing valid GFF

STABLE_IDS