98874f1656202cd5781466a5d9b25f47da1f104d
hiram
  Mon Feb 13 16:03:53 2023 -0800
a bit closer to correct NCBI links, not perfect, but better than it was no redmine

diff --git src/hg/inc/chromAlias.h src/hg/inc/chromAlias.h
index 12f0e88..3361f6f 100644
--- src/hg/inc/chromAlias.h
+++ src/hg/inc/chromAlias.h
@@ -67,16 +67,22 @@
 
 void chromAliasSetup(char *database);
 /* Read in the chromAlias file/table for this database. */
 
 char *chromAliasFindNative(char *name);
 /* Find the native seqName for a given alias. */
 
 struct slName *chromAliasFindAliases(char *seqName);
 /* Get the list of aliases for this sequence name. */
 
 char *chromAliasFindSingleAlias(char *seqName, char *authority);
 /* Find the aliases for a given seqName from a given authority. */
 
 char *chromAliasGetDisplayChrom(char *db, struct cart *cart, char *seqName);
 /* Return the sequence name to display based on the database and cart. */
+
+char *chromAliasNCBI(char *db, char *chr, char *gcX);
+/* given the database and the chrom name, find the NCBI equivalent chr name
+ *   gcX helps determine if RefSeq/GCF or GenBank/GCA
+ */
+
 #endif /* CHROMALIAS_H */