[Genome] Question regarding saving custom tracks and how to get "permanent" url link?

[Brooke Rhead]

Hello Svetlana,

In general, custom tracks expire 48 hours after they were last accessed. 
  The exception to this rule is custom tracks that are saved as part of 
a session.  (Note, however, that we do not guarantee that the custom 
tracks saved in sessions will exist forever . . . you may need to reload 
them if we experience a power outage or some other disturbance.  But 
they are not purposely removed after 48 hours of non-use.)

If you save your custom track in a session, you can share your session 
in any of the ways listed at the bottom of the sessions page 
(http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgSession), and your custom tracks 
should not disappear.  One thing to keep in mind with this method is 
that all of the users who access the session will see the Genome Browser 
with the settings that were saved to the session (for instance, certain 
tracks turned on or off, different image width settings, etc.).

Alternatively, if you want others to be able to see your custom track 
but not have to share the same session, there is another method for 
sharing it.  You will need to put your custom track data in a 
web-accessible location, and then you can construct a URL that will call 
that location and load the data as a custom track.  Instructions for 
doing this are here:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#SHARE

I hope one of these solutions will work for you.  Please write back to 
this list if you have further questions.

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group



Nikic, Svetlana wrote:
> Hi, as you can see, my question is regarding saving my custom tracks
> as an url. What I've been doing so far, is that once I've uploaded my
> data to the UCSC, I've copied the link and then used it for our
> sharepoint, here in the lab. However, my data disappears after I
> guess 48h and I would love to have it permenantly. I imagine that
> something is going wrong with the url that I form, but I'm not sure
> what? And also, do I have to bee loggge in onto one session, if I
> want to do this?
> 
> Hope you'll have time to answer.
> 
> In advance, many thanks Svetlana
> 
> 
> 
> PhD Svetlana Nikic ________________________________ Clinical Sciences
> Centre/MRC Gene Regulation and Chromatin Group, Imperial College, 
> Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road London W12 0NN Tel; (44) 02083838279
> 
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