Hi Sergei,

When drawing a bedGraph there is only one pixel per position to draw.  
If there are overlaps (more than one data point per position), some data 
will not/cannot be drawn.


Please let us know if you have any additional questions: [email protected]

-
Greg Roe
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 6/18/12 1:11 PM, Sergei Manakov wrote:
> hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Could you explain in a bit more detail why is
> it bad to have overlapping intervals in Bedgraph format? I am trying
> to calculate average coverage in a sliding window, so perhaps Bedgraph
> is not suitable for this purpose?
>
> thanks,
> Sergei
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1 June 2012 10:06, Greg Roe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Sergei,
>>
>> The different shades you see at the top are the "whiskers". To turn that of,
>> go to the track controls (click on the title of the track above the display
>> setting pulldown) and where you see "Windowing function", set it to just
>> "mean".  For details, click on the "Graph configuration help" link on the
>> track settings page.
>>
>> So, the overlapping coords are not causing the color issue, however, they
>> are an issue. You should not have overlapping coords.
>>
>> For your last question, in the track controls you have "Data view scaling"
>> set to "auto-scale".  Since the lowest values in you blue and red tracks is
>> 0, 0 shows for those tracks. The 'black' track's lowest data point is 1, so
>> that track uses 1. You can manually change this setting in the track
>> controls by changing "Data view scaling" and "Vertical viewing range"
>> settings.
>>
>> If you have any additional questions, please reply to: [email protected]
>> -
>> Greg Roe
>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/27/12 11:32 PM, Sergei Manakov wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I noticed that when I create bedGraph tracks, there are several deferent
>>> shades to the color that I specify in the header with "color" flag. I
>>> can't
>>> find info on why such things appear (I think automatically in my case) and
>>> how to interpret it.
>>>
>>> Here is an example session:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgS_doOtherUser=submit&hgS_otherUserName=Siarheimanakov&hgS_otherUserSessionName=bedgraph_windower
>>>
>>> You can see that the color of blue and red tracks take different shades
>>> near the top of the graphs.
>>>
>>> Here is the top of one of the bedGraph file that does it:
>>>
>>> track type=bedGraph name=chr17_5P_Evelyn.w1000s200.mean.bedgraph
>>> color=0,0,255 maxHeightPixels=100:100:11 visibility=full
>>> chr17    27425305    27426305    0.05
>>> chr17    27425505    27426505    0
>>> chr17    27425705    27426705    0
>>> chr17    27425905    27426905    0.05
>>> chr17    27426105    27427105    0.05
>>> chr17    27426305    27427305    0.05
>>> chr17    27426505    27427505    0.05
>>> chr17    27426705    27427705    0.092
>>> chr17    27426905    27427905    0.15
>>>
>>>
>>> Coordinates are overlapping, maybe that has something to do with different
>>> shades? If so, what would it mean?
>>>
>>> And, finally, one more question -- what determines the lower value in the
>>> display of a bedTrack? In the example in this e-mail you can see that the
>>> black track starts at 1 while all red and blue tracks start at 0.
>>>
>>> thanks very much,
>>> Sergei
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