Good Afternoon Craig:

You can dramatically speed up your queries with hgWiggle by using the public 
MySQL
server and the .wib file you have on hand already.

Create a file in your home directory by the name of .hg.conf
set its permissions to 600 (chmod 600 .hg.conf) to make it
secret and place the following three lines in it:

db.host=genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu
db.user=genomep
db.password=password

Exactly like that, the password is indeed the word 'password'
it is not a secret.

Now, with that file in your home directory, and the .wib file
in the directory where you want to work, you can run hgWiggle,
for example:

$ hgWiggle -doStats -position=chr1:1-10000000 -db=hg19 phastCons46way

This should speed up your queries quite a bit.

--Hiram

On 7/10/10 7:16 AM, Benson, Craig C wrote:
>
> I am using hgWiggle without a database to pull phastCons scores for a given 
> chromosome position. It seems to be working pretty well using the following 
> two wib and wig files downloaded from here:
>
> ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/multiz46way/phastCons46way.wib
> ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/phastCons46way.txt.gz
>
> ... using the set-up with the instructions from here:
> http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Using_hgWiggle_without_a_database
>
> However, the only concern I have is that running hgWiggle without a database 
> with these two files is slow, which I suspect is from the size of the wib 
> file listed above and nearly 3 GB.   I have noticed that there are *.wigFix 
> files for each chromosome listed here:
>
> ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/phastCons46way/vertebrate/chr**.phastCons46way.wigFix.gz
>
> and so I was wondering... a) are there are associated *.wib files for these 
> individual chromosome files, b) is it possible to run hgWiggle using these 
> chromosome-specific *.wigFix files, and c) do you think it would be faster to 
> use the smaller, chromosome-specific files rather than the larger 
> phastCons46way files I am currently using?  If not, I suspect using the 
> actual database with hgWiggle would be significantly faster, but I'm not 
> entirely excited or confident about trying to get a local copy of the 
> database up and running on my computer.  Is there a set of instructions on 
> getting the database up and running locally?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> Craig C. Benson, MD, MS
> Med-Peds Resident, PGY-4
> University of Rochester Medical Center
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