Hi Anuj, I want to follow-up Jennifer's email with one more piece of information that will be helpful.
You will need to parse the HTML returned from hgTracks in order to find the .GIF image. Katrina Learned UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group Jennifer Jackson wrote: > Hello, > > It is certainly possibly to construct a url to open the browser in a > specific location. Using a session would allow you to set up the view > settings and save them. Perhaps the easiest way is to display the data > in another frame in your html. Or, for static data, create a PDF/PS file > and capture that for display. > > A similar question was answered today that provides some help links to > get you started: > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2009-June/019362.html > > Thanks, > Jennifer Jackson > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > Anuj Goel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know that UCSC genome browser supports viewing of results on its web >> browser but is it possible to have this functionality the other way round? >> >> I have a web-based application which displays results on the browser. I >> am interested to import some tracks from UCSC and show it on my >> web-browser which will give me more flexibility on the type of results I >> want to view. I tried looking for it in your help pages and couldnt find >> an answer to my problem. >> >> 1) Is it possible to send UCSC server a URL of genomic location and >> import a "JPEG" or any other similar format which can be displayed in my >> web-browser? >> 2) How can this be achieved? >> >> Many thanks for your help. >> >> Regards, >> Anuj >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
