Hi Alberto, Can you describe what happens when try to use a URL with a lot of tracks? Is the URL too long for what you are doing? Does the browser time out or do you see an error 500? Or something else?
You might be able to accomplish what you are trying to do with some existing tools. If you only need to set track visibilities and don't need to save other settings, you could use custom track browser lines, described here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#lines Have you looked at the instructions for sharing custom tracks with the hgt.customText setting, described here?: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#SHARE If you need to include several custom tracks, you can generate a file that includes all the custom tracks (or the URLs of all the custom tracks) and browser line settings, and then use the URL of that one meta-custom-track file with hgt.customText=. If we are misunderstanding what you are trying to do, please explain further, and we may be able to offer some other suggestions. Please send your response to [email protected]. -- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 1/20/12 5:19 AM, Alberto Ronchi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > i'm writing because i've encountered a problem in my current work. I'm > developing a tool which allows you to create personalized session on the > genome browser (which we installed locally), selecting the tracks that you > want to display (bw or bed) and the reference genome. > I've found the url generation system, but unfortunately it doesn't work well > for me: if you compose an url with 2/3 tracks everything is fine, but as soon > as you include more it doesn't work anymore. > Thus i'm searching for another way to create sessions programmatically. > I've thought about creating a session file, but after analizyng an existing > one i found out that there are no information about custom tracks location > (i.e. the location of the bw or bed file). The only place where i can find > info about that is the manage custom track section. > Any idea regarding where this information are stored, or how can i access > them? > > Thanks a lot! > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
