Hello, Jing. If you are looking to simply hide ALL tracks, that is fairly easy. You can just add hgt.hideAll to your URL which would look something like this: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgt.hideAll=1&knownGene=pack. Even though the knownGene track is set to display in that URL, you can see that the hgt.hideAll entry overrides it.
If you are looking to hide all tracks except for the ones you specify, there is unfortunately no way to do that at present. From what you describe, it sounds like you are doing what is documented here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQlink.html#link4. If that is the case, what you are doing now is currently the best way to achieve what you're trying to do. A method of hiding all tracks other than what is explicitly specified in the URL has been added to our feature request system. Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further questions. --- Steve Heitner UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jing Gao Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Genome] Hiding all tracks on UCSC Hi UCSC, This is Jing from Broad institute. I am writing to ask how to set all tracks hidden on UCSC browser. What I am doing now is: first go to UCSC browser, then manually hide all tracks and then save the settings as a session file. But when there are new default tracks added by UCSC, I have to update my session file to hide these tracks. I am asking if there are easier ways, like setting a parameter to hide all tracks... Thanks, Jing _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
