The essentiality page works again. You can find it here.
Last Monday, after a phone conference, I removed the property and feature type controls from the feature filter in the new search system in order to insure we only returned meaningful results and to reduce the problem that most property searches return no results. This greatly streamlined the code, but it broke the essentiality page, which was using the feature filter to search for genes with specific properties. To fix the problem, I added a new search that looks for the occurrence of specific property name/value pairs in a chosen genome. This is not a very useful search for users visiting the site, but it does make it possible to do the essentiality searches using the old essentiality properties. I am now leaning toward the idea that the generated search page (found here on the development server) will only be used by developers, and we can have another page for the user-friendly searches that can have more involved explanations and examples.
Anyway, the important thing is that essentiality is back.
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