Jennifer,

I am interested in the colorByStrand option to BedGraph format mentioned below.

Are there any other developments along these lines (i.e. track coloring 
options) that you can share with us....???

In particular, I would greatly benefit from being able to use color to 
differentiate sub-regions within a BED12-specified region, in a similar way as 
being able to have THICK and not thick regions.

Barring that, I wonder if there is a way to compose a single graphical "item" 
out of multiple annotation lines, one for each segment.  I believe that using 
GFF I could group multiple lines using column 9, each line having a different 
"score" resulting in a single "item" with different segments each having its 
own "level of gray".  I am searching for something similar, except (1) with 
color and (2) possibly BED (and 


Thanks!

Malcolm Cook
Stowers Institute for Medical Research -  Bioinformatics
Kansas City, Missouri  USA
 

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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:55 PM
To: Tien-chi Pan
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Subject: Re: [Genome] BedGraph label color

Hi Tien-chi,

You are correct, there are limits in the color options for bedGraph. The other 
formats are necessary for the display you explained.

Thanks,
Jennifer

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Jennifer Jackson
UCSC Genome Informatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu/

On 3/21/10 7:06 PM, Tien-chi Pan wrote:
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I failed to mention that I would like to 
> display bars with varying heights proportional to my input continuous 
> variable (the main reason why I picked bedGraph). My understanding is 
> that, unlike bedGraph, the bed or bigBed format does not support this 
> type of display. Is that correct? If so, ideally what I am looking for 
> is a way to control the color of the bars and the track label 
> separately in a bedGraph (or changing bar colors without affecting label 
> color) .
> If that can't be done, I'm considering to maybe switch to using bed 
> format with some simple color gradient instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Tien-chi
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jennifer Jackson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hello again Tien-chi,
>
>     There is one more option that uses a new attribute called
>     colorByStrand (documentation pending).
>
>     This option also requires a data transformation into bed format, but
>     only a bed6, not a bed9. It also allows you to avoid using a
>     bigDataUrl. An important assumption is that you do not care about
>     strand (likely not, as the bedGraph data is not stranded).
>
>     Below is an example using the colorByStrand track attribute. Note
>     that when used in combination with exonArrows=off, all clues are
>     removed from the graphed data that strand was included in the custom
>     track source data file.
>
>     browser hide all
>     track db=hg19 name=strandColor description="colorByStrand testing"
>     visibility=pack colorByStrand="255,0,0 0,0,255" exonArrows=off
>     chr21   33031597        33041570        itemNegative    1000    -
>     chr21   33031597        33041570        itemPositive    1000    +
>
>     When loading the example into the Custom track submission page,
>     remember to remove any new line returns from the track line that
>     result from a copy & paste. Track lines should always be one
>     continuous string.
>
>     Hopefully one of these solutions will work for your project,
>     Jennifer
>
>     ---------------------------------
>     Jennifer Jackson
>     UCSC Genome Informatics Group
>     http://genome.ucsc.edu/
>
>
>     On 3/17/10 9:44 PM, Tien-chi Pan wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I am using the following track definition line to display copy
>         number data
>         in two-color BedGraph:
>
>         track type="bedGraph" name="Track1" description="Track 1"
>         visibility=full
>         color=255,0,0 altColor=0,255,0 autoScale=off viewLimits=-2:2
>
>         All is fine except the track label shows up as red due to the color
>         parameter setting. The effect I would like to achieve is having
>         red bars for
>         positive data and green bars for negative data, while the track
>         label
>         remains black.
>
>         Is there a way to set the color of the track label separately
>         from the
>         colors of the bars? I tried setting itemRgb but it didn't appear
>         to work on
>         BedGraph.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Tien-chi
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