[Genome] question about URL construction

Galt Barber galt at soe.ucsc.edu
Thu May 3 13:40:46 PDT 2007


You can usually just specify the db (e.g. hg18) in the URL
(URL=http://server/path/...&db=hg18...), and the system
will figure out the org automatically.

-Galt


On Thu, 3 May 2007, Donna Karolchik wrote:

> hi Jing,
>
> To add to what Galt says, if you are using one of the org names
> that contains white space (e.g. D. melanogaster), be sure to put a
> "+" in place of the white space, i.e. D.+melanogaster.
>
> -Donna
> -----------------------------------
> Donna Karolchik
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> http://genome.ucsc.edu
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Galt Barber" <galt at soe.ucsc.edu>
> To: <jing_gao at agilent.com>
> Cc: <genome at soe.ucsc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Genome] question about URL construction
>
>
> >
> > Check out name, description, organism, etc. in dbDB in this
> > file:
> >
> > http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/hgcentral.sql
> >
> > -Galt
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 3 May 2007 jing_gao at agilent.com wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm trying to figure out how to construct an URL to share my
> >> annotation tracks with others. I'm following your instruction
> >> on
> >> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#SHARE,
> >>
> >> Which works well for human. And I could figure out org=mouse
> >> and org=rat.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> But could you tell me the String values I should use for "org="
> >> in the case for the following species:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> A. thaliana
> >>
> >> C. elegans
> >>
> >> D. melanogaster
> >>
> >> D. rerio
> >>
> >> G. gallus
> >>
> >> H. sapiens        human
> >>
> >> M. musculus     mouse
> >>
> >> R. norvegicus   rat
> >>
> >> S. cerevisiae
> >>
> >> S. pombe
> >>
> >> X. tropicalis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jing
> >>
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