Unable to Merge Metabolites by Overlapping Them in Escher Webtool

[emarquezz]

Hi!

I am using the Escher web tool but it seems I can no longer merge metabolites by overlapping them on the map. I expected that dragging one metabolite node over another would merge them into a single entity, but this doesn’t seem to work now.

I tried this on safari, chrome and firefox as well as in different computers.

Is this feature no longer currently supported in the Escher web tool? If not, is there a workaround or an alternative method to merge metabolites?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your work on Escher—it’s an incredibly useful tool! 😊

[IndrekM80]

Yes, experiencing same problems! Also new reaction side-metabolite lines are not smooth (this is a small issue), but no merge on overlapping is a major problem!

[Paulocracy]

Additional info that might help in investigating this issue: Using the (probably older?) Escher version within CNApy (a feature that @axelvonkamp maintains), this error does not occur, we can merge metabolites flawlessly there.

[IndrekM80]

The question is about WEB page

https://escher.github.io/#/

Which does not work properly, what version it is based on I don't know. But what I have noticed is that the FBA page

https://sbrg.github.io/escher-fba/#/

is working properly.

[CaileanCarter]

I'm having the same issue on the web page in Google Chrome with Escher version 1.8.1

[SchroederLabWSU]

Same issue here.

[polentozer]

I'm experiencing the same issue using Safari.

[jana1406]

same issue, is there any new option to merge metabolies by overlapping them?

[dagl1]

This issue has been going on for a very long while now @zakandrewking Could you take a look and and either revert back to the current Github release version. While https://escher.github.io/ redirects to the current releases, the web version is using 1.8.1 which apparently doesn't exist. I cannot find a fork for it either. Based on the time of release and the occurence of issues, it appears to have to do with this, also mentioned in: #399

I understand this project is dead (no updates), but at least maintaining the last working version would be nice (it is unclear what the web tool is actually hosting from).