Hello Stephan, The bugs you reported should now be fixed. Please let us know if you are still having issues seeing the Wiki track when you are not logged in, or if you are still seeing the broken links.
Best regards, Pauline Fujita UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group http://genome.ucsc.edu On 05/23/10 03:42, Stephan Struckmann wrote: > Dear all, > > we would like to add some entries to the wiki track, but I have some > trouble and questions about it. > > * First, is there a possibility to test this feature before publishing? > I am not sure, whether I've understood everything right, especially I > would like to see, how annotations look when entered. Fortunately, I > found by chance some annotations in the genome wiki by searching for > "GenomeAnnotation", so I could try them a bit, maybe there should be > some hint about that possibility. > > Trying out these annotations, I found some bugs: > > 1) First, if I click on an annotation in the genome browser image, it > takes me to a page in the wiki, that does not exist, because the link > has appended: " TARGET= blank, obviously some syntax error in the code. > > 2) Second, when I clicked at a genome wiki page on the link to the > genome browser, sometimes there were trouble with the genome version > that not always had been sent as a CGI-GET-Variable db, leading to a > wrong genome, but I cannot really reproduce that second bug. > > * Second, the wiki track is not shown at all, if I am not logged in to > the genome wiki. I think, it should be possible to see annotations, even > if not logged in, but this is, of course, only a proposal for an > improvement. > > * Third, I have all my annotation data already as a BED file, that I > could upload as a custom track. Can BED or GFF files be uploaded to the > Wiki track directly to open them for the community, or must I re-enter > all the data via the web front end? In that case, I would suggest to > implement some batch upload feature, because tracks usually are > generated as custom tracks, I think, and maybe shared via wiki later. > > I know of the possibility of sharing BED files as described on > http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html under the > headline "Sharing Your Annotation Track with Others", but we would like > to have a wiki entry because it easily can be updated by collegues. > > We are extremely interested in these features, and like to demonstrate > how useful a wiki track is. I hope, you can help us a bit in doing so, > and I wonder, whether the issues has the same high priority for you. > > Thank you very much for the great genome browser and many greetings from > Germany. > > Merry pentacost, > > Stephan Struckmann > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
