Hi Noboru, we often have the same problem. I told my collegues to click on "DNA", select all and copy the resulting sequence, click "BLAT", paste the sequence and click "I am feeling lucky". This will return you to the same coordinates as you saw before, but with the current sequence marked by a black bar, just like a custom track.
If the region of interest is longer than 25kb, you have to remove a large part in the middle of the sequence; I rarely need regions longer than 25kb. This is not a perfect solution but many of my biologist collegues found it simpler than typing in custom tracks... cheers Max On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Mary Goldman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Noboru, > > Unfortunately, we do not have a feature like this available. We > appreciate your suggestion and will pass this request on to our developers. > > Best, > Mary > ------------------ > Mary Goldman > UCSC Bioinformatics Group > > On 8/23/10 4:05 PM, Noboru Jo Sakabe wrote: > > Is there a way of highlighting a genomic interval when using the > > "position or search term" search box? > > The feature that I'm looking for is the same as the one provided > > when using custom tracks: by giving a genomic coordinate to the UCSC > > genome browser in a bed file, it shows the coordinates as black bars. > > I wonder if it is possible to do the same without having to edit a > > custom track. Often times, colleagues and I want to see what is nearby > > a given coordinate. But as soon as we zoom out the desired coordinate, > > it becomes difficult to keep track of the original location because > > there's no highlighting. Although, as I said, it is possible to obtain > > this with a custom track, it would be much faster to have this as the > > default behavior. > > If this is not yet a feature, I'd like to suggest its > > implementation, perhaps as default behavior. > > A fancier idea would be to show the last N coordinates, with > > different colors and a label, something like an on-the-fly custom > > track, without the need of editing one, for quick viewing. > > Thanks! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
