highlight feature via API

[nathandunn]

By making an API call via JBrowse, we should be able to highlight a feature:

http://icebox.lbl.gov/WebApolloDemoStaging/jbrowse/?loc=Group1.1%3A1114135..1122637&tracks=DNA%2CAnnotations%2CForager%2CAmel_4.5_NCBI_EST.gff%2CNCBI%20RefSeq%20Noncoding%20RNA%2CAugustus%20Set%2012%2CCflo_OGSv3.3%2CAmel_4.5_brain_ovary.gff%2CGeneID%2CDmel_r5.42%2CAech_OGSv3.8%2CNvit_OGSv1.2&highlight=

• adding: &select=true to indicate that the selected feature should be selected as shown below, mimicking a mouse click.

[cmdcolin]

This is sort of related but the JBrowse "search" function does not work for the User-created annotations currently. That's because the search function is built for static data, whereas the annotations are dynamic. We could use the REST "Names" API for jbrowse to enable this dynamic search however

Then something like this could be envisioned

http://icebox.lbl.gov/WebApolloDemoStaging/jbrowse/?loc=MyFeature&select=true

[cmdcolin]

Info about names api (webapollo would implement the API, jbrowse would use it)

http://gmod.org/wiki/JBrowse_Configuration_Guide#JBrowse_REST_Names_API

[nathandunn]

For after the 2.0.0 release (I think).

[nathandunn]

Needed for other things, but not part of the development path.