Hi,

I am trying to view some data as a custom track.  I converted a wiggle  
file to bigWig format using the wigToBigWig tool, that seemed to go  
okay, I did't get any error messages.  I just tried to add it as a  
track, and I got the following error: -

  Error ftp server error on cmd=[SIZE /lane2_tophat_gff.bw ]  
response=[550 /lane2_tophat_gff.bw: not a plain file. ] Couldn't open 
ftp://myusername:[email protected]/lane2_tophat_gff.bw

I used 
'bigDataUrl=ftp://myusername:[email protected]/lane2_tophat_out_gff.bw' 
  to describe where to get the file from.
If I type that into a browser, the file downloads fine.

I looked at the file in question and it does look quite strange, lots  
of strange characters, definitely not human-readable!  Here is a bit  
of it : -

&¸èà(u 
€ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ä 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
¯ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5J 
· 
 
 
 
 
Ö 
˚ 
˙ 
 
 
 
 
 
‡; 
 
 
 
 
 
· 
˚ 
 
 
 
 
 
µb 
˝ 
 
 
 
 
 
ÄÔ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1 
{˝ 
 
 
 
 
 
Ê 
 
˛ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
æ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2 
'˛ 
 
 
 
 
 
,L 
˛ 
 
 
 
¯hd˛ìn˛‡;œÜ˛)ä˛ÄÔe 
¢˛§˛æ>º˛wΩ˛§∂É 
‡�...@Äw3$œa‡Õj0âxbëå x

Is this normal?  I read that the wigToBigWig program creates an  
indexed binary file, and assumed that this was what I was seeing.

Thank you,

Scott
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