Did you try pack mode as well as dense?   

On Jul 22, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Xin Zhou wrote:

> Dear Mary,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> 
> I'm working on a local mirror of UCSC browser and want to use bigBed
> instead of bed9 for some huge read-alignment track files. Following is
> the .as file for autoSql commands, it matches my bed9 format, I think:
> 
> 
> table hg18KGchr7
> "UCSC Genes for chr7 with color plus GeneSymbol and SwissProtID"
> (
> string  chrom;                "Reference sequence chromosome or scaffold"
> uint    txStart;      "Transcription start position"
> uint    txEnd;                "Transcription end position"
> string  name;         "Name of gene"
> uint    score;                "Score"
> char[1] strand;               "+ or - for strand"
> uint    cdsStart;     "Coding region start"
> uint    cdsEnd;               "Coding region end"
> string  color;                "Green on + strand, Red on - strand"
> )
> 
> 
> 
> And the track definition for the bigBed tracks contain following lines:
> 
>  type bigBed
>  itemRgb on
> 
> 
> I actually used composite track feature, and I added above lines at
> each level of definition. I hope that wouldn't matter. And I still
> cannot get the bed9 style control and coloring.
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> Xin
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Mary Goldman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Xin,
>> 
>> My best guess is that track line isn't configured quite right. Did you
>> include 'type=bigBed' in your track line? Also, to see color in the squish,
>> pack and full modes you will need to include 'itemRgb="On" ' in the track
>> line as well. Another possibility is that your 9 fields don't line up with
>> those specified in bedExample2.as. Have you looked at this file and verified
>> that it matches your fields?
>> 
>> I hope this helps you solve your problem. If none of these solutions work,
>> please reply with the track and browser lines that you used to upload your
>> custom track.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Mary
>> ------------------
>> Mary Goldman
>> UCSC Bioinformatics Group
>> 
>> On 7/21/10 10:59 AM, Xin Zhou wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I converted bed 9 format file into bigBed using following command:
>>> 
>>> $ bedToBigBed -as=bedExample2.as -bedFields=9 in_file chr_size out_file
>>> 
>>> And made the bigBed file visible on browser. The problem is, the bed 9
>>> effects are missing (strand, coloring), and view options only include
>>> "full", "dense", "hide".
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to tweak it so to get bed 9 effect from bigBed track?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Xin Zhou
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