How to connect customer trackers with a sessions

[Bi Shi]

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am Bi Shi, a postdoctoral from University of Alabama at Birmingham.

I met a hard problem this morning when I try to connect my customer track data to my session. I brief describe as follow,

1. I created a session. Click the browser link, lead me to a new page. I upload my bedgraph files, they look OK. But when I sign out and go back again, there is nothing in the session anymore.

2. I try a different method. Also suggest by the USCS tutorial. I used customer track ( which I did not met any difficulty), upload all my trackers. They looked normal, but I can not hook the customer track with the session I created. The description in the website describe the operation as follow:

"In addition to displaying standard UCSC tracks in your session, you can also display the following user-generated tracks:
Custom Tracks
Genome Graph tracks
Before you create and save your session, be sure to upload your Custom Track or Genome Graph track. These user-generated tracks will be kept for four months from the time the session was last accessed. BLAT results always have a lifespan of 48 hours, even if they are part of a session."

But I can not do it.

Because I want to share the ChIP-seq data with my colleagues. I have tried customer track a few times. Customer track only stay up for a few days. How can I connect the customer trackers with a created session using URL (my customer track URL is https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=mm9&position=chr1%3A2999854-3000813&hgsid=451858823_U7tMPqT1lXqoAvaNlLkJaYccOMaO).

I looked forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Bi

[Matthew Speir]

Hi Bi,

Thank you for your questions about combing custom tracks and saved
sessions. I think the issue is that you have your steps backwards.

First, you should upload your custom tracks here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom.

Then, after you've uploaded your custom tracks and configured the Genome
Browser to your liking, you can save it to a new session here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgSession.

You need to upload your custom tracks before you can save them into a
session. You can read more about saving sessions here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgSessionHelp.html and more about
custom tracks here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html. You may also be
interested in the following blog post about sharing data with
colleagues:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/blog/how-to-share-your-ucsc-screenthoughts/.

I hope this is helpful. If you have any further questions, please reply
to gen...@soe.ucsc.edu. All messages sent to that address are archived
on a publicly-accessible Google Groups forum. If your question includes
sensitive data, you may send it instead to genom...@soe.ucsc.edu.

Matthew Speir
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

> Because I want to share the ChIP-seq data with my colleagues. I have tried customer track a few times. Customer track only stay up for a few days. How can I connect the customer trackers with a created session using URL (my customer track URL is https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=mm9&position=chr1%3A2999854-3000813).