Hello, Vinayak,
Please do respect our usage limits of no more than one hit
per 15 seconds and no more than 5000 per day.
--b0b kuhn
ucsc genome bioinformatics group
On 1/26/2011 1:10 PM, Brian Raney wrote:
> Hey Vinayak,
>
> Thanks for your question.
>
> We do not have much support for using the Genome Browser as a
> background service. To do this efficiently, you'd want to maintain a
> set of cookies (or cart) with the settings of the tracks you want to
> display. We keep track of the cart through the "hgsid" CGI variable.
> We're working on a document that describes how to use the hgsid
> variable, but for now you should be able to scrape it out the HTML
> that our hgTracks program generates. We have a little bit of
> instruction on how to use CGI variables to control hgTracks here:
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQlink.html
>
> To generate a PDF file automatically, you'll also need to do some
> scraping of the HTML from hgTracks to find the PDF file name after
> passing the CGI variable "hgt.psOutput=on" to hgTracks. I've included
> a little script that demonstrates a simple mechanism to ask hgTracks
> to generate a PDF file, then to grab the PDF file that is mentioned in
> the HTML.
>
> wget `wget -q "http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgt.psOutput=on";
> -O - | awk '/.pdf/
> {gsub(".*HREF=\"..","",$3);gsub("\".*","",$3);print
> "http://genome.ucsc.edu/"; $3}'` -O my.pdf
>
> I hope this gets you started. Please respond to this list if you have
> more questions.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Vinayak Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear UCSC folks,
>> I have bed tracks loaded in UCSC and was wondering if there is an automated
>> way to create the pdf pictures that one can create using UCSC page?
>> Attached is the image for your perusal.
>> Thank you very much,
>> Vinayak.
>>
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