Hi Noboru, Unfortunately, we do not have a feature like this available. We appreciate your suggestion and will pass this request on to our developers.
Best, Mary ------------------ Mary Goldman UCSC Bioinformatics Group On 8/23/10 4:05 PM, Noboru Jo Sakabe wrote: > Is there a way of highlighting a genomic interval when using the > "position or search term" search box? > The feature that I'm looking for is the same as the one provided > when using custom tracks: by giving a genomic coordinate to the UCSC > genome browser in a bed file, it shows the coordinates as black bars. > I wonder if it is possible to do the same without having to edit a > custom track. Often times, colleagues and I want to see what is nearby > a given coordinate. But as soon as we zoom out the desired coordinate, > it becomes difficult to keep track of the original location because > there's no highlighting. Although, as I said, it is possible to obtain > this with a custom track, it would be much faster to have this as the > default behavior. > If this is not yet a feature, I'd like to suggest its > implementation, perhaps as default behavior. > A fancier idea would be to show the last N coordinates, with > different colors and a label, something like an on-the-fly custom > track, without the need of editing one, for quick viewing. > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
