Hi Noboru, Please see: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgSessionHelp.html http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgSession
It should do most of what you want. Please let us know if you have any additional questions: [email protected] - Greg Roe UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 1/30/12 2:17 PM, Noboru Jo Sakabe wrote: > Is there a way to bookmark track configurations per "project"? > > What I would like to do is to select a number of tracks that I > want to show or hide, order them, and save this configuration under a > given name, say "activating histone modifications", only showing > histone data. > Then select a different group of tracks and bookmark the view > under, say "expression data". > I would then click on a link to "activating histone modifications" > and find only tracks belonging to that bookmark. > > As the number of tracks grows, it would be extremely useful to be > able to bookmark selected tracks, grouping by project and the like, > mimicking the behavior of having genome browsers with different > content running on the same server. Labs or researchers running > different projects would easily switch between one bookmark and the > other, without the need of manually reselecting all tracks for a given > project. > If this feature is not yet available, I would suggest its > implementation. Maybe under the button "configure", the user could be > given the option to select and bookmark tracks under custom names. > > Thank you. > > p.s. I know that I can pass variables to the cgi and implement my own > bookmark. However, this is not feasible for most users. Also, a > bookmarking system implemented in the genome browser could allow > real-time updates to the bookmark (either automatic or asking the user > if he/she wants to modify the bookmark), while my solution requires > passing new variables, i.e. real-time changes to an existing bookmark > are lost. _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
