Customising the remote user's view of UCSC tracks

[David Leader]

Dear UCSC support,

I have looked for an answer to this question on your website without success, so I made a suggestion regarding it. I had a reply from Ann Zweig saying that there was a lot of additional customization possible, and that I should contact you. 

I have successfully set up on my web server a dynamic link to the UCSC CGI application referencing the chromosome region of a selected Drosophila gene and a tracks file providing a link to my own BigWig files for RNAseq reads of different tissues. That's fine and works as per instruction. 

However I would like to change the default display for the *rest of the page*, i.e. that provided by you. I realize that the user can customize it for himself interactively, and if I were the user I would do this. But the fact is that most of the users I am serving accept whatever defaults I provide, so I'd like to provide an initial view with the settings we think most relevant to our data. Could you point me to the documentation for doing this.

Thank you,

David Leader

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Dr. David P. Leader, 

Boyd Orr Building, 

University of Glasgow

Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

Phone: +44 (0)141 330 5905  

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[Robert Kuhn]

Hello, David,

Thanks for your question about sharing customized links. The short

version of how to specify which tracks are on/off is is to add to your url

a text string in this format:  "&<tablename>=<visibility>".  For example,

to turn off the Spliced ESTs track, which is on by default, you would add
to the url:  "&intronEst=hide".

Here is a link to a short video describing a number of ways to determine
the tablename for a track:

  http://genome.ucsc.edu/training/vids/index.html#vid06

Here is a link to our online documentation for making links:

   https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQlink.html

And here is a recent blog post that discusses sharing Browser sessions
and constructing links.

  http://genome.ucsc.edu/blog/how-to-share-your-ucsc-screenthoughts/

Thanks for being a Browser user.  I hope this helps, but do not hesitate

to contact us via the mailing list for more details if my reply does not get
you exactly where you wish to be.

regards,

   --b0b kuhn

   ucsc genome bioinformatics group

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