One shortcoming of Gene Set View function is that you can't view too many genes at one time, say, >300 genes. In order to overcome this, the "bigBed generator" is written, which allows you to submit arbitrary number of genes/coordinates and make a bigBed file which you can bring up as custom bigBed track and juxtapose track data or run Gene Plot on it.
At control panel, go to "Config & Misc", click on tab "Miscellaneous functions", you can find bigBed generator panel at bottom:
Enter a list of gene names or coordinates into the text area and you are good to go! Of course you can change your idea and select different part of genes to be used by clicking button :
The gene part selection panel appears prompting you to choose an option. Refer to chapter of Gene Set View for detailed use.
Click button to generate bigBed file, file URL will be given:
The file has current session ID as part of its name. At this stage you can either download the file and use it in your own ways, or more conveniently, click button under the file URL and put it up as custom bigBed track. Then you can juxtapose heatmap tracks using the coordinates it contains.
Currently we can't guarantee how long the file is to be kept on our web server. So if the data is important, please download and save it to your computer.
Last modifed: 1/9/2012