Hello Steve,

The best format for your data would be bigWig. Please see this 
announcement for general info on the bigWig format:

https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome-announce/2009-July/000165.html

And for specific info about using bigWig for custom tracks:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html
http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Selecting_a_graphing_track_data_format

In addition to being better suited to larger data sets the bigWig format 
will also allow you to specify scaling parameters in the header section 
of the custom track. For more detail on this see our microarray track wiki:

http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Microarray_track#Microarray_Custom_Tracks

Hopefully this information was helpful and answers your question. If you 
have further questions or require clarification feel free to contact the 
mailing list at [email protected].

Regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu

On 10/06/10 09:13, Weicksel, Steven wrote:
> I have ChIP-chip data that I would like to put on the browser as a custom 
> track.  I've been using the bedgraph format and was wondering if there was a 
> more appropriate format.
> 
> Mostly I want to be able to set the scale so that separate tracks from 
> different treatments are easily comparable.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> 
> Sagerström Lab
> Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
> UMass Medical School
> Worcester MA
> 
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