Hello, Christopher, I can see two possible solutions to your question: https and sessions. In either case, one person would control the content and the others would not need to receive copies for individual upload.
https: If your concern is the visibility of http or ftp to the outside world, and not merely lack of access to such services, then I suggest you use https instead. This page describes how to construct a url using a password that you can privately share with authorized users: http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html#SHARE The url would look like this: https://user:[email protected]/somepath/somefile.html Then the tracks can loaded together in the single file and updates controlled by updating the file in that location. session: You can create a session with an obscure name that could be shared with authorized users. The session could then be re-saved under that name by the person in control of the custom tracks. If the session name and username are sufficiently obscure, then the names act as a password. Simply click on the Sessions link in the blue bar at the top of the browser window to access the sessions interface. If security is an issue, users would need to be cautioned against sharing links to the session , because the session name is encoded in the link in clear text. I hope one of these methods will work for you. Please let us know via the mailing list if you have any further inquiries. Best wishes, --b0b kuhn ucsc genome bioinformatics group On 1/12/2011 8:36 AM, Kettle, Christopher wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I am trying to find a way to automatically update bed files: > > We, as an institution, use 4 BED files routinely to give 4 tracks on > UCSC. These tracks are updated regularly, sometimes daily. The net > effect is that the people who use this file have to upload the updated > BED file very frequently. > > Could you please tell me if there is an alternative to this? We looked > into BigBED files but we don't have the linux system. Ideally we'd like > a way that all users could link into a server location (non http or ftp) > so that the updated file could be saved here and this will automatically > update all the genome tracks for all of the users- I hope that you > understand my reasoning. > > Any help in this matter will be gratefully received. > > Regards, > > Christopher Kettle > Chriskettle > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
