[Genome] custom track format regarding "color"

Hiram Clawson hiram at soe.ucsc.edu
Fri Sep 7 15:57:32 PDT 2007


Good Afternoon Dr. Guda:

Can you provide a sample set of data that will illustrate the problem ?

Remember to verify that your "track" line is a single line despite the number
of arguments on the line.

--Hiram

kishore wrote:
> dear UCSC group,
>  i am creating custom tracks for our internal data and am using the .WIG format. i encountered one problem with including the color info in the track line. if u include the color info in the track line and upload the track using the browse and upload option in the UCSC website, it shows an error.  however, if u copy and paste the data in the space provided and then submit it, no errors are shown and the data is displayed in color. is there some glitch somewhere as to why it doesn't like the color info in the track line if u are planning to browse the file and upload it directly??? ur help will be greatly appreciated since i have lots of different samples and would like to color code them and share the web link to other researchers. thanks in advance.
>  
> Kishore Guda, BVSc&A.H (DVM)., Ph.D. 
> Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
> Case Western Reserve University-Ireland Cancer Center 
> Cleveland, OH 44106



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