Hi Vinayak, You are referring to custom tracks: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom
See the User's Guide, here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html Directions for including the custom track URL in the Genome Browser URL so that the custom track is displayed for anyone who clicks the link are here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html#SHARE If you have very large datasets, you may want to look into using the bigBed or bigWig file formats to avoid long load times: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigWig.html If you have further questions, please contact us again at [email protected]. -- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 5/25/12 1:01 PM, Vinayak Kulkarni wrote: > Hi UCSC folks, > We have seen some genome analysis softwares which create bed files after > analysis are done and with a single click from within the software the user > is directly landed on the UCSC genome browser with the track loaded. > > This is especially useful since you can see the context of your analysis > with respect to other tracks and draw meaningful conclusions. > > I tried to look on the UCSC FAQs for some API which would help me do this > i.e. upload a file directly and then see it in the browser but couldn't > find it. > > Could you please point me to it? > > Thanks! > > Vinayak. > > -- -- "Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, > or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders > progress"... Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
