Good Morning Avi: You can do this in a spreadsheet. It is exactly the same function as if the spreadsheet was a WEB page.
Your spreadsheet icons are URL's to the genome browser as specified by the information at the discussion of "Sharing Your Annotation Track with Others" on this page: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html You make your custom track data files available from a URL at your site, and you construct the URLs in your spreadsheet to fetch the custom track data from there. This site of yours can be completely secure. Your spreadsheet URLs can include the password. Or, you can load up your custom tracks into a saved session and construct URLs that reference that session. Note this discussion about saved sessions: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgSessionHelp.html --Hiram Fungazid wrote: > Hi Hiram, > > Maybe I should first explain what kind of interface I would like. I would > like to give the user an excel file which includes icons representing > different custom-tracks, so that when the user clicks on icons he/she is > directed to the genome browser where the custom tracks are shown. If such > (or similar) possibility exists. > Currently I am not interested in building specific web page for direction to > genome browser unless I have no other options. > > Avi > > --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Genome] Linking custom tracks to the genome browser >> automatically >> To: "Fungazid" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:07 PM >> Good Morning Avi: >> >> I don't understand. How would other users access >> files >> on your computer ? Or, to put it another way, how do >> you >> transmit files to other users ? >> >> If you want other users to use custom track files that you >> have created, you would have to make those files available >> to those users. Somehow you would have to get those >> files >> to the users. >> >> If you want the files to be secure, you can place access >> control on a WEB directory and give them a login password. >> You can use the .htaccess method to protect data on >> a WEB site directory: >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html >> >> --Hiram >> >> Fungazid wrote: >>> Hi Hiram, >>> >>> I want the annotation files to sit locally in the >> user's computer, and prefer not to put them in a website. I >> tried to put a formated annotation file named x.bed in my >> /home/home/Desktop/x, and then to connect to: >>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=hg19&position=chr22:20100000-20140000&hgt.customText=/home/home/Desktop/x/x.bed >>> >>> But the custom tracks located in x.bed are not shown >> in the genome browser website. In principle I want >> everything to run locally (except of calling the genome >> browser) >>> >>> Avi >>> >>> >>> >>> --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> From: Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [Genome] Linking custom tracks to the >> genome browser automatically >>>> To: "Fungazid" <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 7:37 PM >>>> Good Morning Avi: >>>> >>>> Can you create an HTML page of URL links to the >> browser >>>> that reference your custom tracks ? Please >> note the >>>> discussion of "Sharing Your Annotation Track with >> Others" >>>> on this page: >>>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html >>>> >>>> Will this method work for your application ? >> There >>>> should >>>> be no need to bother your users with pasting >> custom track >>>> data. >>>> >>>> Alternatively, you could arrange your custom >> tracks into >>>> groups in saved session data and refer your users >> to >>>> the sessions. >>>> >>>> --Hiram >>>> >>>> Fungazid wrote: >>>>> Hello genome browser people, >>>>> >>>>> I have a very large list of genomic regions >> sets >>>> (~10,000 sets), their coordinates, and their >> custom tracks. >>>> In principle, I can copy each custom track text >> from the >>>> list, place it in the genome browser form, submit >> it, and >>>> watch it graphically in the browser. This is OK, >> but is >>>> there some tool or method that allow me to click >> on custom >>>> track icons and directly go to the browser without >> needing >>>> to repeat the "copy-paste-submit-clean" procedure >> again and >>>> again ? If this is possible it can is very very >> useful for >>>> me because it allow me give my data to other users >> without >>>> irritating them with the copy-paste procedure >>>>> Thanks in advanced Avi >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Genome maillist - [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
