[Genome] GB save function?

[Donna Karolchik]

hi Tim,

We are on the verge of releasing a session management utility that will allow 
users to save track sessions and switch between sessions. It should do most of 
what you're asking below. Barring problems, this should be out by the end of the 
month.

-Donna
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Donna Karolchik
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Hefferon" <thefferon at mail.nih.gov>
To: <genome at soe.ucsc.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:35 AM
Subject: [Genome] GB save function?


> Hi,
>
> In the interests of improving the Genome Browser's function and
> utility....
>
> I spend a lot of time creating particular profiles of track settings
> - tracks of interest on or off, specific custom tracks, specific
> genome coordinates, etc. Once I have spent time on a view and have
> everything the way I want it, when I close my browser or go home for
> the day, I lose all those settings. (I know that cookies, etc.
> remember my last settings, but that only saves one view, and isn't
> very good at recreating coordinates.) There is no way (that I know
> of) to save a particular customized view, so all the time I spent
> customizing the view is wasted.
>
> Could you please consider implementing a Save function that can store
> (either on my local machine or on the server) all the parameters for
> custumized genome browser shots? Ideally this would include all
> custom tracks currently loaded, all other track settings, genome
> coordinates, etc. That way I could load up a view I have spent time
> creating and wouldn't have to recreate it each time I want to
> investigate a particular research question.
>
> This would be really helpful.
>
> Thanks for considering!
>
> Tim
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