Current challenges with data computation for the purpose of visualization in Gosling and other applications

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• Semantic zooming can be useful, but making the right files for semantic zooming is laborious.
  • → DMP can generate a multivec/vector file when a user uploads a BAM file. These files can be used in combination to show coverage information when zoomed out (multivec/vector) while showing raw reads when zoomed in (BAM).
  • Similar use cases for GFF, VCF, Fastq
• Editing chr name conventions (e.g., 1 vs. chr1)
• Sorting chromosomes properly (e.g., chr1, chr11, ... -> chr1, chr2)
• Indexing (e.g., BAI from BAM)