96935ad6b01515061690f86a52bd4ed96f58e638
max
  Mon Jan 30 07:37:39 2023 -0800
addding a plug for view - in external tools to the new primer option on hgGene, refs #30545

diff --git src/hg/hgGene/primers.c src/hg/hgGene/primers.c
index c46cf2c..1d40f4c 100644
--- src/hg/hgGene/primers.c
+++ src/hg/hgGene/primers.c
@@ -1,49 +1,50 @@
 /* primers - do primers section. */
 
 /* Copyright (C) 2013 The Regents of the University of California 
  * See kent/LICENSE or http://genome.ucsc.edu/license/ for licensing information. */
 
 #include "common.h"
 #include "hash.h"
 #include "linefile.h"
 #include "dystring.h"
 #include "cheapcgi.h"
 #include "spDb.h"
 #include "hgGene.h"
 #include "hdb.h"
 #include "net.h"
 
 
 static boolean primersExist(struct section *section, 
 	struct sqlConnection *conn, char *geneId)
 /* Return TRUE */
 {
 return(TRUE);
 }
 
 static void primersPrint(struct section *section, 
 	struct sqlConnection *conn, char *geneId)
 /* Print out primers section. */
 {
 puts("<p style='margin:0'>Primer3Plus can design qPCR Primers that straddle exon-exon-junctions, which amplify only cDNA, not genomic DNA.<br>");
 printPrimer3Anchor(globalTdb->table, curGeneId, curGeneChrom, curGeneStart, curGeneEnd);
 puts("Click here to load the transcript sequence and exon structure into Primer3Plus</a></p>");
 
 puts("<p style='margin-top:0.3em; margin-bottom:0.3em'>Exonprimer can design one pair of Sanger sequencing primers around every exon, located in non-genic sequence.<br>");
 printf("<a href='https://ihg.helmholtz-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/primer/ExonPrimerUCSC.pl?db=%s&acc=%s'>Click here to open Exonprimer with this transcript</a></p>", database, geneId);
+printf("<p style='margin-top:0.3em; margin-bottom:0.3em'>To design primers for a non-coding sequence, zoom to a region of interest and select from the drop-down menu: View &gt; In External Tools &gt; Primer3</p>");
 }
 
 struct section *primersSection(struct sqlConnection *conn, 
 	struct hash *sectionRa)
 /* Create primers section. */
 {
 struct section *section = sectionNew(sectionRa, "primers");
 if (!section)
     return NULL;
 
 section->exists = primersExist;
 section->print = primersPrint;
 
 return section;
 }