vhighlight

Description

This type is not really a track as it does not occupy a horizontal space. It will go over all tracks plotted in the vertical orientation. It can be defined multiple times and will plot vertical rectangle corresponding to the intervals of a bed file.

Parameters

Necessary:

  • type: vhighlight

  • file

Optional:

  • line_width: 0.5 (default) or any float above 0

  • color: yellow (default)

  • alpha: 0.5 (default) or any float above 0 below 1

  • border_color: none (default)

  • zorder: -100 (default) or any float

Output of make_tracks_file:

# Mandatory:
# bed file with regions to highlight
file = regions.bed
# type:
type = vhighlight
# Optional:
# line width
#line_width = 0.5
# border_color of the line (put none to have no border):
#border_color = black
# color of the rectangle:
#color = yellow
# transparency:
#alpha = 0.3
# zorder, choose high values (10 or 100) to put on top
# and low values to put behind (0 or negative values)
#zorder = -100