I would add that it is actually fairly uncommon that a
new default track is added.
--b0b kuhn
ucsc genome bioinformatics group
On 1/10/2012 3:06 PM, Steve Heitner wrote:
> Hello, Jing.
>
> If you are looking to simply hide ALL tracks, that is fairly easy. You can
> just add hgt.hideAll to your URL which would look something like this:
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgt.hideAll=1&knownGene=pack. Even
> though the knownGene track is set to display in that URL, you can see that
> the hgt.hideAll entry overrides it.
>
> If you are looking to hide all tracks except for the ones you specify, there
> is unfortunately no way to do that at present. From what you describe, it
> sounds like you are doing what is documented here:
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQlink.html#link4. If that is the case, what
> you are doing now is currently the best way to achieve what you're trying to
> do. A method of hiding all tracks other than what is explicitly specified
> in the URL has been added to our feature request system.
>
> Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further
> questions.
>
> ---
> Steve Heitner
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Jing Gao
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Genome] Hiding all tracks on UCSC
>
> Hi UCSC,
>
> This is Jing from Broad institute.
>
> I am writing to ask how to set all tracks hidden on UCSC browser.
>
> What I am doing now is: first go to UCSC browser, then manually hide all
> tracks and then save the settings as a session file. But when there are new
> default tracks added by UCSC, I have to update my session file to hide these
> tracks.
>
> I am asking if there are easier ways, like setting a parameter to hide all
> tracks...
>
> Thanks,
> Jing
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