Hi all,

I have been trying to view some custom tracks, which are made of bigBed 
files with a small number of features but lots of blocks (exons) for 
each feature. There should be thin lines between the blocks but often 
the Genome Browser will just display a thick block for the whole region. 
There does not seem to be any consistent way to predict which features 
get displayed as a thick block instead of correctly as alternating thin 
and thick blocks. Simply reloading the page without changing anything 
else will yield a new crop of thick blocks.

I can demonstrate this at this region, loading one bigBed file as two 
separate tracks:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&position=chr18:3447551-3460100&hgt.customText=http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/2012/outbox/ucsc/bigbed-display-bug/segway.browser

For me, the two identical copies do not display identically. Even 
right-clicking on the image and selecting "View image" twice will yield 
two different images (with differences between the identical copies within):

View 1 ("Copy 2" shows the expected results):

http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/2012/outbox/ucsc/bigbed-display-bug/hgt_genome_2aa8_2fe600.png

View 2:

http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/2012/outbox/ucsc/bigbed-display-bug/hgt_genome_2ab6_2fe670.png

At the downstream edge of features the display is even stranger. The 
unexpected thick blocks turn into a block of medium thickness and extend 
to the downstream. For example, see this:

http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~mmh1/2012/outbox/ucsc/bigbed-display-bug/hgt_genome_4690_303510.png

Browser information: Firefox 12.0 Linux 2.6.18-274.el5 RHEL5

Can this be fixed? Is there a way for me to work around this until it is 
fixed?

Many thanks,
Michael Hoffman

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