Hi David, Currently, the data formats bigWig and bigBed both require a load through a url embedded in a track line in the Custom track submission form's box.
Thanks, Jennifer ------------------------------------------------ Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ----- "David Hoover" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "David Hoover" <[email protected]> > To: "Hiram Clawson" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:09:28 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [Genome] concatenate wig files? > > While we're talking about this, is it possible to upload a bigWig file > > into custom tracks using the same mechanism as a wig file, or must the > > file be on a remote server and accessed through a URL? > > Hiram Clawson wrote: > > Good Morning David: > > > > Are you talking about the database contents of > > the wiggle data, or the source ascii files that > > are given to wigEncode ? > > > > If they are just the source ascii files, they > > can all go together with 'cat': > > $ cat files*.wig > result.wig > > > > If they have custom track and browser lines in them: > > $ egrep -v "^track|^browser" files*.wig > result.wig > > > > Or, all these can be sent into wigEncode: > > $ egrep -v "^track|^browser" files*.wig | wigEncode stdin result.wig > > > result.wib > > > > We now try to distinguish source files with the suffix: > > .wigFixed or .wigVar > > for fixedStep or variableStep wiggle ascii data. > > > > You may also be interested in the more efficient > > encoding mechanism of wigToBigWig and the resulting .bw > > file which can be a URL resource. See also: > > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html > > This encoder works for bedGraph file types too and is > > much more efficient: > > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bedgraph.html > > > > --Hiram > > > > David Hoover wrote: > >> I have multiple .wig files, one for each chromosome. Is there > source > >> code for an executable to concatenate the .wig files into a single > > >> .wig file? > >> > >> David Hoover > >> Helix Systems Staff > >> http://helix.nih.gov > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
