Hi,
I'm respondible for a small facility that provides bioinformatics analysis for a small number of groups. One aspect is the analysis of ChIP-Seq data. For the purpose of visualization I decided to use your browser and remote bigWig files hosted on our server. I managed to display such remote bigWig files and I found this to happen very nicely and most importantly to work in very fast way. My question is related to security issues as well as how to automate the upload of the data . Right now I host the data to be displayed at a place, which is not protected at all. On the long run I would like to generate a group-specific (protected - login required) HTML-page that displays all the available tracks for a specific customer/group which upon clicking the respective link should get displayed at UCSC browser. Unfortunately I do not know how to generate such an automated link which would require to autofill the configuration field in the " manage custom tracks" form like in my case: track type=bigWig name="My Big Wig" description="A Graph of Data from My Lab" bigDataUrl=http://myserver/test.bigWig Is there a method to do this type of autofilling the form? I saw this link and it does at least something similar : http://dir.nhlbi.nih.gov/papers/lmi/epigenomes/hgtcell.aspx , unfortunately this group uses vstep wiggle files which I thought might be not as suitable as bigWig files. Additonally the file contains in the header section lots of information (trackname etc) which I think is not suitable for security reasons. I reasoned that a bigWig file does not do so, but rather the track configuration comes from somewhere else. This sounds a little safer to me. 2nd this still would implicate that the data to be upoaded has to be located at a plcae accessible for every internet user. Is there a way to provide additional login information in order to allow access only to authenticated users and still allows to establish a connection of such a file from your server? I guess that such a setup is quite common to other users of your browser/server, therefore you might already know the answer to my question or perhaps might point me at others users that run a similar configuration. In any case I appreciate any helping advice on this topic. Best regards Maxim _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
