Creating Custom Tracks

Data Formats

• A wide range of data formats can be converted to custom tracks than can then be visualized and compared to other genomic data.

• Custom tracks are managed through the "My Data --> Custom Tracks" window. Select this page.

• Available formats for custom tracks are described here.

Creating a custom track

• Paste the following block of text into the Paste URLs or Data window and click the Submit button. Then select the "view in Genome Browser" option on the next page.

track name="ClassExample" description="Edited" visibility=0 url= 
chr4	133149358	133149958	Example1	10	+
chr4	133149754	133149980	Example2	100	+
chr4	133150808	133152008	Example3	500	+
chr4	133152429	133152829	Example4	1000	+

• Note the presence of the group "Custom Tracks" with the track "ClassExample". Toggle the display mode to full and click Refresh. Zoom out do that all 4 Examples are visible.

• Select "Tools-->Table Browser". The region will usually correspond to the part of the genome visualized in the browser. Select the “summary/statistics” function to display some statistics about the information in the custom track.