The custom track function allows user to view private data through the Browser. The custom track will behave just like native tracks in every way, with all the analysis/processing function applicable. Three types of custom tracks are supported, each corresponds to one file format. For all cases, the file has to be placed on a web server supporting byte-range request.

bigWig and bigBed custom tracks

bigWig files submitted as custom track will be displayed in genome heatmap, and bigBed files will be displayed as genomic feature tracks. See the paper Kent WJ et. al. Bioinformatics. 2010 Sep 1;26 for details on these data formats.

BAM custom track

The BAM track allows you to view read-alignment of sequencing experiment, and displays as genomic-feature track. See the paper Li H et. al. Bioinformatics, 25, 2078-9 for details.


Custom track information can be made persistent with session function.


Last modifed: 09/26/2011