Hi, Goeff,
I'm sorry, but we have a bit of an anthropocentric bias with
regard to the chrom color key. Because around 85% of our traffic
is on the human assemblies, there are certain kinds of attention
that the non-human assemblies do not get, and we just do not
have the resources to code for a custom color key for each
organism.
As you have noted, we actually have only one color key for
all the assemblies. One issue is the difficulty in finding
enough colors that look sufficiently different from each other
in a crowded browser display.
For animals with more chroms than human, you will see that
we continue to march down the color key and overload the
chr{X,Y,M,Un} colors, so that chr{23,24,25,26} will have
those same colors, respectively. For chr27 and beyond, we
simply use a black coloring.
You can get around the limitation at certain visibility
settings by holding your mouse over an item. The mouseover
text that appears will tell you the chrom number.
Sorry that we can't have a separate color key for every org.
Best regards, and thanks for being a Browser user.
--b0b kuhn
ucsc genome bioinformatics group
On 3/14/2012 2:37 AM, Pollott, Geoff wrote:
> Hi
> I am a little puzzled about the Chromosome Color Key at the bottom of the
> browser. I work with sheep and cattle so the number of chromosomes will
> differ depending on which species I am comparing to. However the key only
> seems to have 22 chromosomes plus X,Y etc. How can I change this for
> different species?
> Many thanks
> Geoff
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