[Genome] size limit of BED files?

Hiram Clawson hiram at soe.ucsc.edu
Tue Dec 11 13:29:11 PST 2007


Good Afternoon Leighton:

Can you gzip the file to reduce its transfer size ?

Where does the "Can't read file" message appear ?
Is that the full message ?

--Hiram

Leighton J. Core wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to upload a custom track to the genome browser, and I get  
> the error message: "Can't read file".  I have uploaded BED files  
> before, and this BED file was made in the same way.  The only  
> difference is that it is much larger: it has 7.2 million lines and is  
> 565 MB in size.  Is this file just too big?  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> Leighton Core


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