bbabbd5d2566d47d923d51dbe350634783455999 mspeir Sun Oct 26 12:14:52 2025 -0700 change soe to gi, refs #35031 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html index fd47c9d4827..e13d50de0c7 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/customTrackText.html @@ -776,32 +776,32 @@ data:

  1. 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=<databaseName>, where databaseName is the UCSC code for the genome assembly. For a list of these codes, see the Genome Browser FAQ. Examples of this include: db=hg38 (Human Dec. 2013 assembly = GRCh38), db=mm10 (Mouse Dec. 2011 assembly = GRCm38).
  2. The genome position to which the Genome Browser should initially open. This information is of the form position=<chrPosition>, where chrPosition is a chromosome number, with or without a set of coordinates. Examples of this include: position=chr22, position=chr22:15916196-31832390.
  3. The URL of the annotation file on your web-accessible location. This information is of the form hgt.customText=<url> or hgct_customText=<url>, where url points to the annotation file on your website. An example of an annotation file URL is http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/test.bed.

Combine the above pieces of information into a URL of the following format (the information @@ -824,31 +824,31 @@

If you'd like to share your annotation track with a broader audience, send the URL for your track—along with a description of the format, methods, and data used—to the UCSC Genome mailing list genome@soe.ucsc.edu.

Optional URL parameters

A special blog post discusses and provides examples of many of these parameters such as hgct_customText=<url>, db=<databaseName>, hubUrl=<url>, and genome=<databaseName> to attach custom tracks, track hubs, assembly hubs, and even track hubs to assembly hubs, all in a single URL. Read an overview of ways to share Genome Browser data views in the -Sharing Data with Sessions and URLs blog post.

You can add other optional parameters to the URL: (Note: Display may vary if you have conflicting cart variables, for example having both hide all and highlight features.)