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mspeir
Wed Sep 9 11:17:57 2026 -0700
Help pages: fix broken internal links and restore anchors people still cite, refs #38062
Three groups of anchor problems on the help and FAQ pages.
Broken internal links, five pages: posters.html listed a 2022 section that
does not exist (no 2022 posters), api.html listed REST and JSON separately
after the two sections were merged, docker.html pointed at a #UsrAcct section
that is not on that page, FAQgenes.html had a capitalized #ncbiRefSeq where
the anchor is #ncbiRefseq, and the genomes.txt settings rows in
trackDbHub.v3.html carried no anchors so its own "genome" link missed.
Retired anchors that are still cited in twenty years of answers on the genome
list. Content moved to its own page and the old anchor was deleted rather than
left behind, so the citations land at the top of the page. Reattached seven
numeric FAQformat anchors to the Topics entry linking to each format's page.
BED, PSL, GFF and GTF were removed from the custom track page in 2012 and
never added back to its list of supported formats; added them with the old
anchors, which fixes customTrack.html and hgTracksHelp.html together since
both include customTrackText.html. Also restored #lines there, and #Session
on hgTrackHubHelp.html and #link4 on FAQlink.html.
Section anchors on six pages that had none, so a support answer can link to
one part of them: bam.html, hic.html, bedgraph.html, ftp.html, net.html and
trackDbIndexBb.html. Skipped quickLiftChain.html, oligoMatch.html and
cutters.html, which are track description fragments included into the details
page rather than standalone pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context)
NOTE: Some annotations need to be hosted remotely in a web-accessible location that support byte-range
requests to be visualized on the UCSC Genome Browser, such as: bigBed, bigWig, BAM, VCF, etc.
For examples of how to host your custom track data remotely, please refer to the track hub user
guide, "Where to host
your data?".
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If the data or description text for your custom track was originally loaded from a file on your hard disk or server, you should first edit the file, then reload it from the Update Custom Track page using the "Choose File" button. Note that edits made on this page to description text uploaded from a file will not be saved to the original file on your computer or server. Because of this, we recommend that you use the documentation edit box only for changes made to text that was typed or pasted in.
+Browser lines are optional, but they give you control of many aspects of the overall display of the Genome Browser window when your annotation file is uploaded. Each line defines one display attribute. Browser lines are in the format:
browser attribute_name attribute_value(s)
For example, if the browser line browser position chr22:1-20000 is included in the
annotation file, the Genome Browser window will initially display the first 20000 bases of chr
22.