Hi Steve, Yes, what I want is to hide all default tracks except for my tracks. It seems the hideAll parameter will hide all tracks. Thanks, Jing
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Steve Heitner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
