Hi Abi,

Negative one is an illegal value for a chromStart. GTF files are 
1-relative coordinates where the first base of a chromosome is 1, the 
equivalent chromStart value is 0. See also: 
http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format4

Please let us know if you have any additional questions: [email protected]

-
Greg Roe
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

On 1/23/12 12:58 PM, Lakshmanan, Abirami wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upload a gtf file (output from cufflinks/cuffmerge of ucsc 
> refseq zv9 and ucsc ensembl gene  zv9) as a custom track to the UCSC site and 
> I keep getting this following error.
>
>    Error track load error (track name='ct_UserTrack_3545'):
> start -1, end 3618 out of range in findBin (max is 512M)
>
> I tried removing the entries which start at 1, 0 and are on the negative 
> strand and still I get the same error.
> Has anyone encountered this before?
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Abi
>
> _______________________________________________
> Genome maillist  -  [email protected]
> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
_______________________________________________
Genome maillist  -  [email protected]
https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome

Reply via email to