Hi Peter, 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 Peter, > This sounds possible. Just run each step as you would normally > (construct the appropriate urls or use an auto-web interface scripting > utility) in your program. The Sessions feature may be of interest to you > to create the master "background" of track settings. For images, the > PostScript/PDF tool is the best option for detail display/clarity. > > Please note our usage limit: 1 hit every 15 seconds & no more than 5,000 > hits per day > > There are many details in the Help sections for creating urls to do > tasks (such as loading custom tracks). These are good places to start to > gather information: > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#CustomTracks > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#Sessions > http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdisplay.html#display3 (Resetting ....) > http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQlink > > Thanks, > Jennifer Jackson > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > Peter Saffrey wrote: > >> I would like to generate snapshots of the UCSC browser. I want to set >> the default tracks to display, upload a few bed files, set the genome >> position and grab an image (.png?) all from within a script. Can this be >> done? >> >> Peter >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
