Load Bigwig To Ucsc Genome Browser Without Http, Ftp

Question

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Is it possible to load bigwig file to UCSC genome browser without having a http, ftp site? I just want to upload my data from my computer and view it. is this not possible?

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

It's not possible but you can use a free site like dropbox.com to upload your bibwig file.

See "Hosting Custom Tracks for the UCSC Genome Browser on Dropbox" http://bergmanlab.smith.man.ac.uk/?p=1989

[roll]

Thanks, is this also true for wig files? For the wig files it keeps giving me the memory error, when i try to upload it from the local drive. Can i ask for more memory for example?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

AFAIK you need to convert from wig to bigwig.

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thank you, that is great

[Gema Sanz]

Hello, I'm trying to upload a bigwig file into UCSC but I always get the message

Error Unrecognized format line 1 of https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91564809/test.bigwig: (note: chrom names are case sensitive)

I have the format indicated at the post from Bergman lab (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91564809/test.bigwig)

Thanks in advance!