Hi,

We have had quite a hard time getting the browser to work efficiently in 
the past 2 weeks. We have a large publicly available custom tracks file, 
that is loaded regularly (and has been for the past few years) and even 
though the file has gotten a little bigger recently, the browser seems 
abnormally slow.

Is there an exceptionnal amount of users recently that would slow down 
the access ? or a temporary problem on your side ?

The file of custom tracks is available here (to be loaded on hg19):
http://www.genomequebec.mcgill.ca/compgen/submit_db/bed/vervet_vs_humanhg19_custom_tracks.txt

We have an equivalent file for the genomes of rhesus and chimp, but it 
seems much faster to work with these.
http://www.genomequebec.mcgill.ca/compgen/submit_db/bed/vervet_vs_rhesus_custom_tracks.txt
http://www.genomequebec.mcgill.ca/compgen/submit_db/bed/vervet_vs_chimp_custom_tracks.txt
(one of the tracks in the human file concerns some fish experiments, and 
they are recent add-ons, are these tracks "heavier" because they access 
an html page ?)

Is the problem on our side ? Does the fact that 2 or more computers on 
our server try to access the browser at the same time, with the same 
public custom track file, cause the problem ?

I personnally had trouble getting the pages to finish loading (it would 
time out after a while) or zooming out after I locally loaded an extra 
bigBed file. It would sporadically work. I had to remove the custom 
tracks mentionned above to get it to work, but it's still not as smooth 
as it used to be.
Is there a size limit for the custom tracks we should be able to load ?
Could that bigBed file cause the slowlyness problem for the other users 
in my group, or should our computers be completely independent when it 
comes to accessing the UCSC browser ?

My other question is more straight forward : I am trying to extract the 
subset of "Satellite" tracks from the RepeatMasker bed file for the 
genomes of human and rhesus, but since they belong to different classes, 
I have no way to know if a name is part of the class Satellite. I 
manually extracted some of them, but it would be greatly appreciated if 
you can send me the isolated subsets of satellite tracks for hg19 and 
rheMac2.

Thanks a lot for your help !

Jessica


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Jessica Wasserscheid
Bioinformatician, Vervet Monkey Genomics Project
http://www.genomequebec.mcgill.ca/compgen/submit_db/vervet_project
McGill University & Genome Quebec Innovation Center
740 Dr. Penfield Avenue Room 7211
Montreal, Quebec Canada, H3A 1A4
 
Email : [email protected]
Phone : (001) 514-398-3311 #00476


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