text: /* chromAlias.h was originally generated by the autoSql program, which also 
   * generated chromAlias.c and chromAlias.sql.  This header links the database and
   * the RAM representation of objects. */
  
  #ifndef CHROMALIAS_H
  #define CHROMALIAS_H
  
  #define CHROMALIAS_NUM_COLS 3
  
  extern char *chromAliasCommaSepFieldNames;
  
  struct chromAlias
  /* correspondence of UCSC chromosome names to refseq, genbank, and ensembl names */
      {
      struct chromAlias *next;  /* Next in singly linked list. */
      char *alias;	/* external name */
      char *chrom;	/* UCSC genome browser chromosome name */
      char *source;	/* comma separated list, when available: refseq,genbank,ensembl */
      };
  
  void chromAliasStaticLoad(char **row, struct chromAlias *ret);
  /* Load a row from chromAlias table into ret.  The contents of ret will
   * be replaced at the next call to this function. */
  
  struct chromAlias *chromAliasLoad(char **row);
  /* Load a chromAlias from row fetched with select * from chromAlias
   * from database.  Dispose of this with chromAliasFree(). */
  
  struct chromAlias *chromAliasLoadAll(char *fileName);
  /* Load all chromAlias from whitespace-separated file.
   * Dispose of this with chromAliasFreeList(). */
  
  struct chromAlias *chromAliasLoadAllByChar(char *fileName, char chopper);
  /* Load all chromAlias from chopper separated file.
   * Dispose of this with chromAliasFreeList(). */
  
  #define chromAliasLoadAllByTab(a) chromAliasLoadAllByChar(a, '\t');
  /* Load all chromAlias from tab separated file.
   * Dispose of this with chromAliasFreeList(). */
  
  struct chromAlias *chromAliasCommaIn(char **pS, struct chromAlias *ret);
  /* Create a chromAlias out of a comma separated string. 
   * This will fill in ret if non-null, otherwise will
   * return a new chromAlias */
  
  void chromAliasFree(struct chromAlias **pEl);
  /* Free a single dynamically allocated chromAlias such as created
   * with chromAliasLoad(). */
  
  void chromAliasFreeList(struct chromAlias **pList);
  /* Free a list of dynamically allocated chromAlias's */
  
  void chromAliasOutput(struct chromAlias *el, FILE *f, char sep, char lastSep);
  /* Print out chromAlias.  Separate fields with sep. Follow last field with lastSep. */
  
  #define chromAliasTabOut(el,f) chromAliasOutput(el,f,'\t','\n');
  /* Print out chromAlias as a line in a tab-separated file. */
  
  #define chromAliasCommaOut(el,f) chromAliasOutput(el,f,',',',');
  /* Print out chromAlias as a comma separated list including final comma. */
  
  void chromAliasJsonOutput(struct chromAlias *el, FILE *f);
  /* Print out chromAlias in JSON format. */
  
  /* -------------------------------- End autoSql Generated Code -------------------------------- */
  
  struct hash *chromAliasMakeLookupTable(char *database);
  /* Given a database name and a connection to that database, construct a lookup table
   * that takes chromosome alias names to a matching struct chromAlias.  Returns NULL
   * if the given database does not have a chromAlias table. */
  
  #endif /* CHROMALIAS_H */
  