Hello Shaun,

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately we do not currently have 
plans to implement support for SAM format in custom tracks. The 
conversion you outline, therefore, is the your best option at this time.


Best regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu

On 05/25/11 11:09, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have small alignment of a single sequence in SAM format generated by
> bwasw that I'd like to view as a custom track. I'd like to paste this
> SAM alignment into the custom track form, but I get the error
> "Unrecognized format". I could convert the SAM file to a BAM file and
> use the "track type=bam bigDataUrl" format custom track, but for a small
> alignment like this it would be convenient to be able to paste in SAM
> format.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaun
> 
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