Greetings,

Thanks to help from Maximilian and Brooke, I now have a Savant plugin
which is happily accessing the UCSC database.  I do have a couple of
questions about parts of the database layout which are still unclear
to me:

1) There are a number of tables which are listed in hg19.trackDb which
aren't actually tables (e.g. agilentCgh).  I thought they might be
views, but doing  "SELECT * FROM hg19.agilentCgh" from the mysql
command prompt tells me "Table 'hg19.agilentCgh' doesn't exist".  I
would have thought that if agilentCgh were a view, the SELECT * would
just work?  Or am I missing something here?

2) A number of tables store their info in an external file (e.g.
phastCons46way).  I recognise that
"/gbdb/hg19/multiz46way/phastCons46way.wib" is a path to a WIB file on
UCSC's FTP server.  Is there a way to access these files via HTTP, or
is FTP the only way?  Accessing byte-ranges via FTP isn't fun.

Thanks again,

Eric Smith
University of Toronto
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