Thankfully its just medip-seq data so it's just handling it,

I am generating the bigwig files and uploading them with success!

Thanks for your help Hiram and Jennifer

nick



On 12/08/2010, at 11:20 AM, Hiram Clawson wrote:

> If you have wiggle data that covers a large portion of a multiple giga base
> size genome, your computer will need many 10s of Gb of memory to run
> the command.  Unless your laptop is something very special, it probably
> can not complete a large wiggle file.
> 
> --Hiram
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Wong" <[email protected]>
> To: "Hiram Clawson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:44:21 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Genome] Running the wigToBigWig program
> 
> Hi Hiram,
> 
> my PATH environment is set properly, 
> 
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/ebiotools/bin
> 
> I took Jennifer's advice onboard and downloaded the chromSizes directly.
> 
> Just reformatting my wig tracks to not have the track line at the moment and 
> my laptop is struggling! :-)
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/08/2010, at 9:33 AM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> 
>> Good Afternoon Nick:
>> 
>> The program *is* using your ftp command from /usr/bin/ftp
>> 
>> What the error says is that the ftp attempt did not work correctly.
>> 
>> This script is having difficulty locating any commands on your system.
>> Do you have any PATH set at all in your login terminal ?  Try this
>> at your command line prompt:
>> 
>> echo $PATH
>> 
>> Does it indicate /bin:/usr/bin or anything like that ?
>> 
>> --Hiram
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nicholas Wong" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Jennifer Jackson" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:44:00 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: Re: [Genome] Running the wigToBigWig program
>> 
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> I tried to run the fetchChromSizes script, it executes but now there is a 
>> new error (see below):
>> 
>> INFO: trying FTP /usr/bin/ftp for database hg19
>> ERROR: ftp command failed
>> ERROR: sorry, attempt to fetch chrom.sizes has failed ?
>> 
>> ftp on my computer resides in /usr/bin I don't have a /usr/bin/ftp folder
>> 
>> executing ftp from terminal works, but the script doesn't, I have had a look 
>> at the script to see if I could point it in the right directory, but I am 
>> not soooo comupter savvy sorry.
>> 
>> Thanks for your time and help
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/08/2010, at 4:03 AM, Jennifer Jackson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> 
>>> Your shell is having trouble finding the program(s). They do need to be 
>>> made executable (so that was good to do) and the location added your path. 
>>> If not already, add the path to your shell file then be sure to source it. 
>>> Most likely this is the problem.
>>> 
>>> There are many online resources for Mac OS if you need unix/shell syntax 
>>> help.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Jen
>>> UCSC Genome Browser Support
>>> 
>>> On 8/10/10 8:24 PM, Nicholas Wong wrote:
>>>> I am sorry for probably a very simple question, I have tried to download 
>>>> wigToBigWig and fetchChromSizes programs from the website and tried to 
>>>> execute them in terminal.
>>>> 
>>>> I just get bash: command not found.
>>>> 
>>>> I did try a chmod to make these files executable and get the same error 
>>>> result.
>>>> 
>>>> I am running MacOSX 10.6.4, Terminal version 2.1.1
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> Nick
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dr Nick Wong BSc(Hons), Ph.D
>>>> Postdoctoral Fellow
>>>> Developmental Epigenetics, Early Development and Disease
>>>> 
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>>>> The Royal Children’s Hospital
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