Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for the suggestions. I failed to mention that I would like to display
bars with varying heights proportional to my input continuous variable (the
main reason why I picked bedGraph). My understanding is that, unlike
bedGraph, the bed or bigBed format does not support this type of display. Is
that correct? If so, ideally what I am looking for is a way to control the
color of the bars and the track label separately in a bedGraph (or changing
bar colors without affecting label color) . If that can't be done, I'm
considering to maybe switch to using bed format with some simple color
gradient instead.

Thanks,
Tien-chi

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jennifer Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello again Tien-chi,
>
> There is one more option that uses a new attribute called colorByStrand
> (documentation pending).
>
> This option also requires a data transformation into bed format, but only a
> bed6, not a bed9. It also allows you to avoid using a bigDataUrl. An
> important assumption is that you do not care about strand (likely not, as
> the bedGraph data is not stranded).
>
> Below is an example using the colorByStrand track attribute. Note that when
> used in combination with exonArrows=off, all clues are removed from the
> graphed data that strand was included in the custom track source data file.
>
> browser hide all
> track db=hg19 name=strandColor description="colorByStrand testing"
> visibility=pack colorByStrand="255,0,0 0,0,255" exonArrows=off
> chr21   33031597        33041570        itemNegative    1000    -
> chr21   33031597        33041570        itemPositive    1000    +
>
> When loading the example into the Custom track submission page, remember to
> remove any new line returns from the track line that result from a copy &
> paste. Track lines should always be one continuous string.
>
> Hopefully one of these solutions will work for your project,
> Jennifer
>
> ---------------------------------
> Jennifer Jackson
> UCSC Genome Informatics Group
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/
>
>
> On 3/17/10 9:44 PM, Tien-chi Pan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using the following track definition line to display copy number data
>> in two-color BedGraph:
>>
>> track type="bedGraph" name="Track1" description="Track 1" visibility=full
>> color=255,0,0 altColor=0,255,0 autoScale=off viewLimits=-2:2
>>
>> All is fine except the track label shows up as red due to the color
>> parameter setting. The effect I would like to achieve is having red bars
>> for
>> positive data and green bars for negative data, while the track label
>> remains black.
>>
>> Is there a way to set the color of the track label separately from the
>> colors of the bars? I tried setting itemRgb but it didn't appear to work
>> on
>> BedGraph.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tien-chi
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