[DAS] Scaling of DAS tracks

Andy Jenkinson andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Sep 14 09:27:31 UTC 2009


That's odd, is the registry having any problems? I'm assuming the URL  
is correct since it works for me! (still working)

On 14 Sep 2009, at 10:18, Jonathan Warren wrote:

> Hi Andy
>
> Gives a 404 for me as well..
>
> On 14 Sep 2009, at 09:49, Andy Jenkinson wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> Did you use the 'max' and 'min' properties? These tell the client  
>> how to scale the data, otherwise it can only use the values it  
>> receives for any one region to guess what they are. Ensembl makes  
>> no assumptions that the scale for one track is the same for  
>> another, and in the absence of explicit min/max values assumes that  
>> the maximum is the highest score it received, and the minimum is  
>> the lowest.
>>
>> If however the maximum height of the track itself is different  
>> (i.e. the height in pixels of the label region) this must be  
>> something else. If you show me the stylesheet and features response  
>> I can take a look for you.
>>
>> The documentation link you posted works for me, is it still giving  
>> a 404? In any case, I believe Ensembl supports all of the  
>> stylesheet functions in the specification.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> On 11 Sep 2009, at 16:46, Christian Ruckert wrote:
>>
>>> I have provided a histogram stylesheet for my DAS tracks, as  
>>> described at http://www.dasregistry.org/extension_stylesheet_histogram.jsp 
>>> .
>>>
>>> Now when viewing my tracks in ensembl I have problems with the  
>>> correct scaling. One track is displayed twice as high as the  
>>> other, despite the score values are only half as high.
>>>
>>> Is there some documentation which stylesheet commands are  
>>> supported by ensembl. The link to the ensembl stylesheet  
>>> convention at http://www.dasregistry.org/spec_1.53E.jsp returns a  
>>> 404 error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christian
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