Loading Zipped Genome From File

[Dario Strbenac]

When I try and load a genome file that ends in .fa.gz I get an error File E:\Dario\SeaUrchin\Spur_3.1.LinearScaffold.fa.gz.tbi not found. Shouldn't it be looking for the index Spur_3.1.LinearScaffold.fa.gz.fai ?

[Marc Fiume]

Hi Dario,

When you formatted your sequence track, did you choose FASTA as the format? Typically .tbis are created (and looked for) when a file is formatted as one of the column based formats.

Marc

[Dario Strbenac]

I had a FASTA file that was compressed, but without an index. After unzipping it, and making an index for it, I could load it fine. It is a use case that the program didn't anticipate.