This is very good news, very useful! As an encore can you make a version of the 'Fetch closest feature' tool that includes an option to return overlapping features. The current version is misleading as it actually returns the closest *non-overlapping* features. One utility of the change would allow the identification of the closest gene to a ChIP-seq/chip peak. Currently extra effort is required to get the midpoint or summit of a peak to compare against the start and end of selected transcripts. Many thanks to you and the Galaxy team! Ian Quoting Kanwei Li <kanwei@gmail.com>:

Dear users,

I have created a new tool to randomly extract random lines from a dataset as some of you have requested it. It is now available in the repository and on our public test instance under "Text Manipulation". Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks,

Kanwei