Hello Rachel,

You can use a "." dot as a placeholder for the strand field.

You will notice in the native browser tracks that we sometimes assign 
everything to the (+) strand for cases like this (dbSNP is an example).

The choice is yours to make,

Thanks,
Jennifer

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

On 5/12/10 7:22 AM, Rachel A. Soemedi wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm trying to visualize our CNV findings on the browser and i'm using the
> BED format to load the custom track. Is there a way for me not to use the
> strand field?
> Below is line 3 that i modified from the example in the User guide:
>
> chr4    173545454       180105276       6.0_dn_91    0      +
> 173545454       180105276       0,100,255
>
> For the optional fields i need to visualize the name and color, thickStart
> and End i don't really need, and i would much prefer to not visualize any
> strand orientation because it can be misleading. Is that possible?
>
> thanks in advance,
> rachel
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