Hi again, One of our engineers has actually used Dropbox sucessfully for custom tracks. He says the file must be in the "Public" folder or have permissions so that the public can access it. Then you can get the link to the file and use that URL to load your custom track.
Hope this helps! -- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 7/12/12 4:18 PM, Brooke Rhead wrote: > Hi Nick, > > We don't have any experience with third-party file hosting services, so > we can't give you any advice on them, but I can say that you definitely > do not need to set up a local mirror. At the most, you could set up a > web server on your local system, but it's probably not necessary to do > that, either. > > Hopefully Davide's comments (and comments from any other user that might > chime in) will help you find another way to host your files! > > -- > Brooke Rhead > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > > > On 7/12/12 3:38 PM, Cittaro Davide wrote: >> I've been using Dropbox for a long time to provide some bigwig >> tracks. The only issue is the amount of space available which may not >> be enough for large files (e.g. huge BAM files from WGS >> experiments). Don't know about google drive. >> >> D >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 12/lug/2012, at 14:44, Nick Wong <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Recently Apple shut down their iDisk service much to my dismay. It >>> was great in that I could store my custom tracks on the web and >>> paste a link to these tracks on iDisk to genome browser with ease. >>> >>> I have been trying to find alternatives to iDisk such as Google >>> drive and Dropbox, while you can obtain a link to your file, I >>> think it is for downloading only as genome browser can not read the >>> link as a custom track. >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone has successfully used these cloud >>> storage services to store their custom tracks for genome browser? >>> Or any alternative way of doing so short of creating a local >>> instance of genome browser? >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> nick _______________________________________________ Genome >>> maillist - [email protected] >>> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > LA TUA CURA E' SCRITTA NEL TUO DNA. AL SAN RAFFAELE LA STIAMO REALIZZANDO. >> AIUTA LA RICERCA, DAI IL TUO 5XMILLE - CF: 03 06 80 153 >> info:[email protected] - www.5xmille.org >> >> Disclaimer added by CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007 >> http://www.codetwo.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - >> [email protected] >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >> > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
