Hello Danny, For the Custom track management page, the order that you load the track controls the order of the display. There is no way to change this. New tracks will be listed _above_ previously loaded tracks. Or order this, load the tracks in the reverse order that you want them to appear in the list.
For browser display, there are some options. 1) set the track attribute "priority". http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#TRACK priority=1 priority=2 etc. Any track without a priority attribute set by you will have a default of "1". Tracks with the same priority number will be ordered by the default ordering (track type, then alpha-numeric = numbers, lower-case, upper-case). To have full control, load all with a priority setting. 2) To re-order after loading, use the track configure form. This can be found as a button named "configure tracks and display" the Gateway page for an assembly or immediately under the browser's graphical display as a button named "configure". Click on the button, and on the form, in the upper section, check the box "Enable track re-ordering". The form will update and will include a new columns, one named "Group Order". Add the order numbers for each track. Group is by default set to "user", which is the Custom track section's group name. It is recommended to leave this setting as default, although you could change it if desired (note that not all "groups" are displayed in the main browser and that conflict can arise with native tracks, triggering the default ordering for duplicated priority numbers). Save your results into a Session to have them stored for a longer period of time and keep backup files of anything that you would miss if it were lost (for example, an unexpected server/disc error at UCSC). This is rare, but possible. Hopefully this is helpful, but please let us know if you have other questions or any feedback, Jennifer --------------------------------- Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Informatics Group http://genome.ucsc.edu/ On 5/21/10 9:07 AM, Daniel Muehlschlegel wrote: > I have uploaded 11 custom tracks. They appear in a certain order on the > ³manage custom tracks² page and in a different order in the genome browser. > The order appears random and I cannot figure out how to change it. I have > some pre/post samples and some single samples and would like to order it in > a logical way. Please advise. > > Thanks ! > > Danny > > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine > at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > properly > dispose of the e-mail. > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
