[Genome] Linking to specific genome position on custom tracks saved in session

[Andy Chu]

Hi,

I understand that I can change the position when I'm importing the
custom track, but I'm trying to access a track that has already been
saved in a session.  When I load up the session
http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?
hgS_doOtherUser=submit&hgS_otherUserName=Mfield&hgS_otherUserSessionName=hg18_all_fpp
it always goes back to the default position that was assigned when I
imported my track.  My question is can I go directly to a position using
the session URL that I have?  What I would like to do dynamically
generate a URL that goes to that session and automatically display any
position that I supply.

Thanks,

Andy Chu
Canada's Micheal Smith Genome Sciences Centre


On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 17:14 -0700, Brooke Rhead wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Positions specified in custom tracks overrides positions specified in 
> URLs.  The position lines in the custom tracks will need to be removed 
> for the URL position to take effect.  See these answers to similar 
> previously-asked questions:
> 
> http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2004-August/005326.html
> 
> http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2007-May/013446.html
> 
> I hope this information helps.  If you have further questions, please do 
> not hesitate to contact us again.
> 
> --
> Brooke Rhead
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> 
> We invite you to give us your feedback on the UCSC Genome Browser
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> 
> 
> 
> Andy Chu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have several custom tracks loaded into the genome browser and saved in
> > a session.  I want to link to these tracks and specify the position
> > where they open in a dynamically generated URL.  Unfortunately, whenever
> > custom tracks are loaded they always have a default position, so when I
> > try to link to the session with a &position=chr:start-end added to the
> > end of the URL, the default position is loaded up instead of the
> > position I want.  Is there any way to go straight to the position I want
> > using the session URL?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andy Chu
> > Canada's Micheal Smith Genome Sciences Centre
> > 
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