Yay, it works!  Thanks.

Bill


On 06/25/2012 03:42 PM, Brian Raney wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>
> If you add the following four lines to each of your BAM stanzas in
> your track hub, it should make the display of your BAM tracks the same
> as they are displayed in custom tracks:
>
> baseColorDefault diffBases
> baseColorUseSequence lfExtra
> bamColorMode strand
> showDiffBasesAllScales .
>
> Brian Raney
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:50 PM, William Noble<[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/25/2012 01:23 PM, Luvina Guruvadoo wrote:
>>> Hi Bill,
>>>
>>> The options you are referring to are explained in some detail on our
>>> BAM configuration help page, please see:
>>> http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgBamTrackHelp.html.
>> Thank you for this pointer.
>>
>>> The BAM tag definitions can be found in the SAM tools documentation:
>>> http://samtools.sourceforge.net/. The BAM coloring modes should allow
>>> you to get the same results as uploading a custom track.
>>>
>> Alas, I cannot figure out, from the documentation, what is going on
>> here.  Here is a little bit of the display I'm seeing:
>>
>>
>>
>> The top track was uploaded via the "manage custom tracks" button on the
>> browser.  The second track was uploaded via my track hub.  Both tracks
>> are using the same BAM file.  On the top is the representation that is
>> described in the documentation, with strand encoded as dark red or blue,
>> and mismatches indicated by bright red vertical bars.  However, in the
>> version uploaded via my track hub (below), strand is doubly represented,
>> both as color and using a series of "<" or">" symbols.  I can find no
>> way to get rid of these ">" symbols, no mention of them in the
>> documentation, and no way to turn on the default mode of indicating
>> mismatches with a bright red bar.
>>
>> Can someone help me debug this problem?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>> Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further
>>> questions.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Luvina Guruvadoo
>>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/21/2012 9:38 AM, William Noble wrote:
>>>> On 06/20/2012 03:07 PM, Steve Heitner wrote:
>>>>> The sections you will want to view are:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://genome-preview.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/trackDb/trackDbDoc.html#c
>>>>>
>>>>> ommonSettings
>>>> At the URL above, I found this documentation for the "|bamColorMode"
>>>> tag:
>>>>
>>>> |
>>>>
>>>>       |bamColorMode<strand/gray/tag/off>|
>>>>
>>>>       There are numerous ways to color bam tracks to highlight certain
>>>>       aspects if the data. All of these are user configurable. By
>>>> default,
>>>>       mismatched bases are highlighted in bright red, and alignments to
>>>>       the plus strand are colored dark blue and minus strand are dark
>>>> red.
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering how to interpret the four options (strand, gray, tag,
>>>> off).  Is there a description somewhere of what these options mean?
>>>>
>>>> The motivation for this question is that I have a BAM file that I
>>>> uploaded via a track line in the "Upload custom data tracks" dialog and
>>>> also put into my track hub.  Using the first mode, I see the BAM file in
>>>> the default coloring (by strand, with mismatches colored in bright
>>>> red).  However, via my track hub, the mismatch coloring disappears and
>>>> instead I get ">" or"<" signs indicating, I think, pairing
>>>> information.  I want the track hub version to display in the default
>>>> mode.  Can someone let me know whether this is possible, and how to
>>>> do it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>>
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