About IGB QuickLoad

IGB QuickLoad (QL) is a very simple, file-based system you can use to share data files on-line using a Web site or cloud storage service like Dropbox. Using QuickLoad, you can configure data sets to appear in the IGB Data Access panel, making it easy for lab members, collaborators, and the public to browse and view your data. And if you use a Web site to share your data, you can also protect it with a password in advance of publication.

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QuickLoad sites can reside on your computer hard drive, on-line, or in the cloud. Typically, you'll create a QuickLoad site on your local computer, test it, and then copy it to a Web site or a Dropbox Public folder.

How to

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set up your own IGB QuickLoad Site

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for sharing data

First check to see if your genome version is already supported in the main IGB QuickLoad site to distribute reference gene annotations for  human and model organism genomes.

To set up a QuickLoad site, first check to see if your genome version is already supported in the main quickload site. If yes, setting up your own QuickLoad site will be very easy.

To find .

To find out which genome versions are already supported, view http://igbquickload.org/quickload/contents.txt.

This file is a meta-data file that reports genome versions and genome version directories for all the genome versions supported on the main IGB QuickLoad site. Your QuickLoad site will also need one of these filesits own contents.txt file, but you'll only list entries for genome versions you wish to support on your site.

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• Column 1 - IGB genome version name (for example, H_sapiens_Dec_2013)Column 2 - a name. Genome directories have the same name. The names encode the genus, species and sometimes the variety of the species that was sequenced, along with the month and year the genome version was released.
• Column 2 - User-friendly description of the genome version, including commonly-used synonyms  (for example: Homo sapiens (Dec 2013) human being (GRCh38/hg38))

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• synonyms. IGB displays this on the top of the main window when you visit a genome.

Note that for each genome version name listed in column 1, you'll find a directory with the same name in the IGBQuickLoad site root directory.

If Check to see if your genome version of interest is already listed in the main IGB QuickLoad  contents.txt meta-data file.

If it's there, then follow these directions to share your data: Sharing data for a genome already part of IGB QuickLoad.

If your genome version is not already part of the main IGB QuickLoad site, it's not there, then follow these directions to share your data: Sharing data for a custom genome not already part of IGB QuickLoad.

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