Hi Minou, Here is some information about creating bed files: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1
You might consider converting your bed files to our bigBed format using the program bedToBigBed. The main advantage of the bigBed files is that only the portions of the files needed to display a particular region are transferred to UCSC, so for large data sets bigBed is considerably faster than regular bed files. The bigBed file remains on your web accessible server (http, https, or ftp), not on the UCSC server. I am not sure if this is what you were asking, but to specify a block to cover the entire chromosome, you would set your chromStart to 0 and your chromEnd to the length of the chromosome. To find out the length of each chromosome, from the gateway page (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway), use the drop-down menus to select your assembly of interest, and under the drop-downs, in the light blue bar that states, " About the <assembly information> (sequences)", click on the 'sequences' link. For example, the hg19 sequences link would take you here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&chromInfoPage= I hope this information is helpful. Please contact the mail list ([email protected]) again if you have any further questions. Katrina Learned UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 9/16/11 12:58 PM, Minou Bina wrote: > Hi > > We are planning to analyze entire human chromosomes and create .bed files for > display on the human genome browser. > > It is clear how we should specify the block position for an entire chromosome > and how we should do the numbering. > > Minou Bina > Purdue University > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
