Re: [Bioc-devel] bigBed support in rtracklayer

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
Parsing a trackHub turns out to be relatively casual, at least if the hub is well behaved. (If it isn't, must not be worthwhile... ;-)) R> dim(hubTracks) [1] 11144 2 So that's a hub with 11144 tracks, which takes a while to parse (perhaps 2-3 minutes). There are a bunch of flat tracks right

Re: [Bioc-devel] bigBed support in rtracklayer

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Lawrence
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote: > So, a trackHub as spec'd by UCSC ends up being a DAG. It may not be > strictly directed, even; I'm pondering that. The file under a hub's root > is title genomesall.txt and tells what trackDb is associated with a genome. > Loading the cor

Re: [Bioc-devel] bigBed support in rtracklayer

2012-12-02 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
So, a trackHub as spec'd by UCSC ends up being a DAG. It may not be strictly directed, even; I'm pondering that. The file under a hub's root is title genomesall.txt and tells what trackDb is associated with a genome. Loading the corresponding trackDb file provides a bunch of information about th

[Bioc-devel] bigBed support in rtracklayer

2012-12-02 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
I'm looking through the rtracklayer directory in SVN, specifically src, and finding common files shared between bigWig and bigBed. It looks like bigBed isn't supported yet, however, so I'm thinking of hacking up bigWig to do something similar. How close is/was bigBed support, and if anyone was/is