87eae20de868054a5abeedeb78a24d3e296b87d5 dschmelt Tue May 21 15:09:55 2019 -0700 Adding notes about TinyURL enabling URL parameters #23030 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html index 011db3b..50458bf 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html @@ -645,32 +645,31 @@ bigBed, bigWig or VCF tracks. This is a required attribute for those track types. There is no default for this attribute.

Here is an example of a properly formatted track line using the bigBed format, with accompanying browser line:

browser position chr21:33,031,597-33,041,570
 track type=bigBed name="bigBed Example One" description="A bigBed file" bigDataUrl=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/bigBedExample.bb

Sharing your annotation track with others

To make your Genome Browser annotation track viewable by people on other machines or at other sites, -follow the steps below. (Note that some of the URL examples in this section have been broken up into -2 lines for documentation display purposes).

+follow the steps below.

Step 1. Put your formatted annotation file on your web site. Be sure that the file permissions allow it to be read by others.

Step 2. Construct a URL that will link this annotation file to the Genome Browser. The URL must contain 3 pieces of information specific to your annotation data:

The species or genome assembly on which your annotation data is based. To automatically display the most recent assembly for a given organism, set the org parameter: e.g. org=human. To specify a particular genome assembly for an organism, use the db parameter, db=database_name, where database_name is the UCSC code for the genome assembly. For a list of these codes, see the Genome Browser FAQ. Examples of this include: db=hg16 (Human July 2003 assembly), db=mm6 (Mouse Mar. 2005 assembly).