Hosting UCSC Genome Browser Tracks on Globus

[Gutteridge, Michael]

Hi

I've seen a number of mentions suggesting that we should be able to host a UCSC TrackHub via a Globus guest collection with HTTPS enabled.  Unfortunately, the best threads I found didn't seem to have a concrete resolution indicating if their efforts were successful.

So- any y'all hosting TrackHubs in Globus?  Does it work pretty well or is it a problem? 

I'd just turn it on and try, but we haven't yet done a risk assessment of HTTP access... before I go down that path I thought I'd just poll the community.

Thanks!

• Michael

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[Michael Gutteridge]

I went ahead and mocked something up with our dev environment.  It does indeed seem to work as expected- I was able to set up a guest collection with anonymous access to the path with the "hub.txt" file.  I had someone with more experience using Genome Browser check it out and the functionality seems to be there.

The only hiccup I found along the way is that our production storage gateways are configured as high-assurance- since high-assurance does not allow anonymous access we have to figure out how to either change that or (more likely) configure a separate gateway for handling public access.

Thanks- if anyone else has any advice, we'd love to hear it.

 -- Michael

[Lev Gorenstein]

This is very cool, thank you for sharing, Michael!

Re: assurance levels - yes, spinning up a separate non-HA storage gateway for TrackHub-related mapped and guest collection seems to be the best solution if your policies dictate the HA requirements for other work.

Lev