FAQ
Hard Reload
Sometimes your web browser might cached old Javascript code of the browser, if you didn't see updated feature after refresh, you can do a Hard Reload. This is how you do this on Google Chrome:
Open Developer Tools:
Click and Hold the Refresh button for a while, then you can see the Hard Reload option:
Data fetch failed
Please check the URL to your file is correct. If yes, most case, your webserver doesn't enable CORS. Please see tracks page for how to enable CORS settings.
Use HTTP or HTTPS
Both our main site and AWS mirror support both HTTP and HTTPS protocol, since webpage hosted through HTTPS cannot access resource hosted by HTTP, you should use our HTTP site. For example, when you visit https://epigenomegateway.wustl.edu/browser, and you want to display a custome track hosted at http://your.track.url.bigwig, the browser will display Data fetch failed for that track because due to security settings, the browser in HTTPS page cannot access HTTP resource. In such case you can use http://epigenomegateway.wustl.edu/browser instead (without the s).
Firebase fetal error
After you installed a new mirror, when you start your mirror instance by running npm start, if you see a Firebase fetal error like following:
This means you need to setup a Firebase database for the Session/Live function to work properly, check Firebase_setup please.
Can I use without setup Firebase?
Yes. But this means you would not have the Session/Live function, check use_without_Firebase please.
Local track security
Local track function is perfect for view protected or private data, since there is no data transfer on the web. More discussions about this please check here.
What's the different between hub and sessionFile URL parameter
Both browser links with hub or sessionFile can be shared with others or be used for publication purpose. sessionFile not only contains all the tracks as hub, it also contains genomic coordinates, metadata, show/hide of genome navigator etc.
So sessionFile link contains more information than hub link, as the sessionFile contains more contents only used by the browser (it's much more complex than hub file syntax).
Examples links:
