Hiram, Thanks you very much for your fast reply and information. I'll research the document and will probably come up with finer refined questions.
Thanks again! Rouben. -----Original Message----- From: Hiram Clawson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:15 PM To: Gargaloyan, Rouben Cc: [email protected]; Martin Curland Subject: Re: [Genome] Add tracks programmatically Good Afternoon Rouben: Please note the following discussion about adding tracks to the genome browser: src/product/README.trackDb If you can add one manually, you could maybe make an automatic process. Your fundamental problem is that users often do not submit correct data for a track and you would end up with a lot of meaningless tracks unless you have a curator to take them out. --Hiram Gargaloyan, Rouben wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building a web site to interface with Genome Browser. Currently I'm using > your formatted URL approach to make the custom tracks available within a > group. > > It works great but we want to be able to programmatically upload a permanent > annotation track to our local mirror. > > I learned from your documentation that custom tracks never become part of > MySQL database and use specific controllers which read track data directly > from File System. I presume, there is a database table which holds a > reference to a local disk path which I could set programmatically upon > copying my custom track to specific location (please define) within the > genome browser. > > To summarize my question, I need your help in letting me: programmatically > upload a track to be globally available to all Genome Browser mirror users. > > Your hints will be very much appreciated. > > Thank you very much for your work! > > > Rouben Gargaloyan. _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
