e314363411293556f33418abe8923ad1e8bc496a
markd
  Fri Oct 2 21:36:04 2026 -0700
Revert the TSS nesting on master; it lives on superTrackNesting. refs #35528

Putting PRO-cap and ProCapNet inside a transcriptionStart superTrack needs the
nesting fix in #38460, which is not released. These tracks were released in
3bee9e40921, so on beta and the RR hgTrackDb would drop the container and
trackDbToTxt would write an hs1 curated hub whose members name a parent stanza
that is not there.

The work is on the superTrackNesting branch and can come back once #38460 ships.

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/outside/proCapNet/proCapNetTrackDb src/hg/makeDb/outside/proCapNet/proCapNetTrackDb
index d48cc95a8b2..676b91f9052 100755
--- src/hg/makeDb/outside/proCapNet/proCapNetTrackDb
+++ src/hg/makeDb/outside/proCapNet/proCapNetTrackDb
@@ -1,199 +1,186 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """Generate the transcriptionStart.ra trackDb file for one assembly.
 
 Layout is a superTrack holding one composite per data source: proCapNet for the
 model predictions and sequence-contribution scores, encode4ProCap for the
 experimental PRO-cap signal.  hs1 has predictions only.
 
 These are traditional composites, not faceted ones.  A faceted composite is
 routed to facetedCompositeUi(), which returns before cfgByCfgType(), so the
 wiggle controls are never drawn; signal tracks need them.  A container multiWig
 under a traditional composite still draws as one overlay row per cell line.  What
 it does not get is an inline config block on the composite page, because
 compositeUiSubtracks() lists descendant leaves and a multiWig is not a leaf; each
 overlay is configured from its own hgTrackUi page instead.
 
 Subtrack names are <composite>_<cell>_<dataType>.
 
 STATUS: this only partly works and is expected to be replaced by a superTrack
 holding the multiWig overlays directly.  hgTrackUi lists descendant leaves, not
 containers, so an overlay gets no inline config block and deselecting both
 strands of a cell line leaves an empty row (#38441).  A superTrack gives each
 overlay its own page and no flattening, at the cost of the matrix and the sample
 class filter.
 """
 import argparse
 from pycbio.sys import cli, fileOps
 from pycbio.tsv import TsvReader
 
 GBDB = "/gbdb/{db}/{track}"
 
 
 def parseArgs():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument("db")
     parser.add_argument("experimentsTsv")
     parser.add_argument("outRa")
     return cli.parseOptsArgsWithLogging(parser)
 
 def stanza(indent, lines):
     pad = " " * indent
     return "".join(pad + line + "\n" for line in lines) + "\n"
 
-def superStanza():
-    "the container both data sources sit in"
-    return stanza(0, [
-        "track transcriptionStart",
-        "superTrack on show",
-        "group rna",
-        "shortLabel Transcription Initiation (TSS)",
-        "longLabel Transcription initiation (TSS)",
-    ])
-
 def sourceSuperStanza(track, shortLabel, longLabel):
-    """One superTrack per data source, inside the transcriptionStart container.
-
-    A superTrack inside a superTrack needs the fix in #38460; before it the outer
-    container passed tdbQuery -check -strict and was then silently dropped at
-    load.  Every child of the container is written before any of their members,
-    because tdbQuery -strict rejects a file in which another track comes between
-    a superTrack and one of its children."""
-    return stanza(4, [
+    """One top-level superTrack per data source.
+
+    These were briefly nested under a transcriptionStart superTrack, which looks
+    legal and passes tdbQuery -check -strict but silently loses the outer level:
+    trackDbSuperMarkup() refuses to give a superTrack a parent, so hgTrackDb never
+    writes the outer one.  See #38460."""
+    return stanza(0, [
         f"track {track}",
         "superTrack on show",
-        "parent transcriptionStart",
         "group rna",
         f"shortLabel {shortLabel}",
         f"longLabel {longLabel}",
     ])
 
 def strandOverlay(db, composite, exp, dataType, subDir, fileTag, shortLabel, longLabel,
                   childLabel, priority, vis):
     """One cell line's two strands as an overlay, plus strand drawn up and minus
     strand drawn down.  Both sources store the minus strand negated, so neither
     needs the trackDb negateValues setting.  That setting used to be on the
     ProCapNet minus tracks, and it broke the composite's own negate control: that
     control sets one shared value for the composite, which replaced the per-track
     setting and sent both strands the same way, with no route back to the default
     short of a cart reset.
 
     fileTag is the part of the file name that says what the file holds, so a
     bigWig downloaded on its own still names its source: the model for the
     predictions, the ENCODE experiment accession for the measurements.
 
     Each overlay is a member of the transcriptionStart superTrack rather than a
     composite child, so it is a track in its own right: hgTrackUi gives it a full
     configuration page, and hiding it hides the whole overlay instead of leaving
     an empty row.  It therefore carries its own wiggle settings, since there is no
     composite to inherit them from, and its own html, since a superTrack member
     does not inherit the container's description page."""
     gbdb = GBDB.format(db=db, track=composite) + subDir
     out = stanza(0, [
         f"track {composite}_{exp.cell}_{dataType}",
         f"superTrack {composite} {vis}",
         "container multiWig",
         "aggregate solidOverlay",
         "showSubtrackColorOnUi on",
         "type bigWig",
         "autoScale on",
         "alwaysZero on",
         "maxHeightPixels 100:40:8",
         "windowingFunction maximum",
         "configurable on",
         f"html {composite}",
         f"color {exp.color}",
         f"shortLabel {shortLabel}",
         f"longLabel {longLabel}",
         f"priority {priority}",
     ])
     out += stanza(4, [
         f"track {composite}_{exp.cell}_{dataType}_pos",
         f"parent {composite}_{exp.cell}_{dataType}",
         "type bigWig",
         f"bigDataUrl {gbdb}/{exp.cell}.{fileTag}.pos.bw",
         f"color {exp.color}",
         f"shortLabel {shortLabel} +",
         f"longLabel {childLabel}, plus strand",
     ])
     out += stanza(4, [
         f"track {composite}_{exp.cell}_{dataType}_neg",
         f"parent {composite}_{exp.cell}_{dataType}",
         "type bigWig",
         f"bigDataUrl {gbdb}/{exp.cell}.{fileTag}.neg.bw",
         f"color {exp.color}",
         f"altColor {exp.color}",
         f"shortLabel {shortLabel} -",
         f"longLabel {childLabel}, minus strand",
     ])
     return out
 
 def contribStanza(db, exp, priority):
     gbdb = GBDB.format(db=db, track="proCapNet")
     return stanza(0, [
         f"track proCapNet_{exp.cell}_contrib",
         "superTrack proCapNet hide",
         "type bigWig",
         f"bigDataUrl {gbdb}/contrib/{exp.cell}.proCapNet-contrib.bw",
         "logo on",
         "autoScale on",
         "alwaysZero on",
         "maxHeightPixels 100:40:8",
         "configurable on",
         "html proCapNet",
         f"color {exp.color}",
         f"shortLabel {exp.cell} Contribution",
         f"longLabel {exp.cell} ({exp.modelAcc}) ProCapNet sequence-contribution scores",
         f"priority {priority}",
     ])
 
 def proCapNetTracks(db, experiments):
     "the prediction overlays, and on hg38 the contribution scores"
     out = ""
     for priority, exp in enumerate(experiments, 1):
         out += strandOverlay(db, "proCapNet", exp, "pred", "/pred", "proCapNet",
                              f"{exp.cell} Predicted",
                              f"{exp.cell} ({exp.modelAcc}) ProCapNet predicted PRO-cap,"
                              f" plus up minus down",
                              f"{exp.cell} ({exp.modelAcc}) ProCapNet predicted PRO-cap",
                              priority, "full")
     if db == "hg38":
         for priority, exp in enumerate(experiments, 11):
             out += contribStanza(db, exp, priority)
     return out
 
 def encode4ProCapTracks(db, experiments):
     "the measured PRO-cap overlays, ordered ahead of the predictions"
     out = ""
     for priority, exp in enumerate(experiments, 1):
         out += strandOverlay(db, "encode4ProCap", exp, "procap", "", exp.procapAcc,
                              f"{exp.cell} PRO-cap",
                              f"{exp.cell} ({exp.procapAcc}) PRO-cap transcription start"
                              f" sites, plus up minus down",
                              f"{exp.cell} ({exp.procapAcc}) PRO-cap transcription start sites",
                              priority, "full")
     return out
 
 def proCapNetTrackDb(opts, args):
     experiments = list(TsvReader(args.experimentsTsv))
     fileOps.ensureFileDir(args.outRa)
     with fileOps.AtomicFileOpen(args.outRa) as fh:
         print(f"# Generated by hg/makeDb/outside/proCapNet/proCapNetTrackDb for {args.db}.",
               file=fh)
         print("# Do not edit by hand, edit the script and regenerate.\n", file=fh)
-        fh.write(superStanza())
         if args.db == "hg38":
             fh.write(sourceSuperStanza(
                 "encode4ProCap", "PRO-cap",
                 "PRO-cap nascent RNA transcription start sites from ENCODE 4"))
         fh.write(sourceSuperStanza("proCapNet", "ProCapNet",
                                    "ProCapNet predicted PRO-cap"))
         if args.db == "hg38":
             fh.write(encode4ProCapTracks(args.db, experiments))
         fh.write(proCapNetTracks(args.db, experiments))
 
 def main():
     opts, args = parseArgs()
     with cli.ErrorHandler(noStackExcepts=(OSError, cli.PycbioException)):
         proCapNetTrackDb(opts, args)
 
 main()