On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good Afternoon Michael:
>
> It isn't an error.  It could be used to produce contextual zooming
> views.  But that requires extra knowledge about what you would
> want to see on the higher level spans.  Note slide 14 "Span" in
> this presentation:
> http://genome-test.cse.ucsc.edu/~hiram/wigglePresentation.html<http://genome-test.cse.ucsc.edu/%7Ehiram/wigglePresentation.html>
>
> Unfortunately this feature is complicated to document and explain
> and has never been used.  It has been discontinued in the
> bigWig transition.  Maybe I can disable it so you can get an
> error message or warning in the future.
>
>
Well, this definitely casts the WIG format in a different light. I think it
would have been used if it had been documented.  My suggestion is to either
document it or remove it.

Thanks,
Michael



> --Hiram
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Lawrence" <[email protected]>
> To: "Hiram Clawson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Michael Lawrence" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, November 1, 2010 3:31:58 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Genome] wig with multiple blocks per chromosome
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Hiram Clawson < [email protected] >
> wrote:
>
>
> Good Afternoon Michael:
>
> You can't use different spans in the same data track for wiggle data.
>
>
> I see, I missed that part. It would be nice if the browser reported some
> sort of error or warning, rather than just omitting features.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
> If your items have different sizes, use the bedGraph
> format and turn it into a bigWig file.
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bedgraph.html
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html
>
> --Hiram
>
>
>
>
> Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is the following a valid WIG file?
>
> track name="My Track" type=wiggle_0
> fixedStep chrom=chr1 start=201491492 step=0 span=29
> 80.3
> fixedStep chrom=chr1 start=201491528 step=0 span=80
> 99.5
>
> When I upload to the genome browser, only the first interval is displayed.
> I
> can't find anywhere in the WIG format description that disallows using two
> blocks for the same chromosome: shouldn't they just be merged?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
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