Hello, The bigDataUrl can access a file on an internal network, but it should still be written in url format - an ftp or http link that includes the server name (presumably only accessible from within your network and maybe even user/password protected).
Here is a prior mailing list answer that has the url syntax and a link out to a reference for escaping characters in a url. The user who asked this question was doing something different, but the general guidelines apply for bigDataUrl as well. https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2008-April/015997.html For custom tracks databases, you can set up how files are "cleaned". This can be adjusted to meet your time requirements. A link to the process is here: http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Using_custom_track_database#Cleaner_script Please let us know if you need more help, Jennifer --------------------------------- Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group http://genome.ucsc.edu/ On 2/19/10 4:35 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello All, > > > > To date, when we want to add a custom track to the Genome Browser using > BAM file, we can enter in the bigDataURL field a HTTP or FTP location as > address where the BAM file and its pair-indexed file are. > > We are going to install locally a mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser. > > Then, we are going to create and add Custom Tracks to this mirror but > locally. > > Is there any possibility to give the address of file on a machine from a > local network (such as > /mymachine/bam_folder/MyBAMs/exp002/mybamfile.bam) into this bigDataUrl > field ? > > > > In the meantime, is it possible to customized the lifetime of the tracks > within the local Genome Browser Mirror in order to get more than 48 > hours storage? > > > > Thanks for your replies > > Best Regards, > > Dr Christophe LEGENDRE > > TGen, PHX, USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
