Could you please point me to information about bigWig* access utilities and the hgWiggle command (other than the URL you provided below)?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Hiram Clawson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:12 PM > To: Martin Tompa > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Genome] possibly excessive MySQL queries > > Good Afternoon Martin: > > As you might imagine, we are not going to give you NFS access > to our filesystems. > > For bigWig files that are remote on a URL, you do not need to > copy the files. > Use the bigWig* access utilities to fetch data from those > files via the URL. > > For the native wiggle tracks composed of a MySQL table which > indexes into the .wib binary file, you can use these locally > by fetching just the .wib binary file, and then use either > your local MySQL mirror, or the public MySQL server to fetch > data out of those .wib files with the hgWiggle command. See also: > > http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Using_hgWiggle_without_a_database > > --Hiram > > Martin Tompa wrote: > > Dear friends at UCSC, > > > > We've been happily using our mirror of the UCSC mysql > database for my computational biology capstone class this > quarter. I now have a related but different question. > Something we need to do now is to query function values from > wig and bigwig files that reside in the UCSC web, but are > external to the mysql database we've mirrored. Rather than > try to download all these files (for which I'm not sure our > class can obtain sufficient additional memory), we were > wondering whether we could network mount the directories at > UCSC containing the appropriate files. Is this against your > policy, perhaps because of some limited bandwidth that would > impact other users? > > > > Thanks for your advice. > > Martin. > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
