Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Done
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Labels:
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Story Points:1
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Sprint:Winter 2018 Sprint 3, Spring 2019 Sprint 1
Description
Several people have posted in Biostars about how they have had difficulty opening files in IGB (see https://www.biostars.org/p/107856/#136590 for an example). Ultimately the issue is not with IGB, but that the files do not match the correct standard. For example, there was no header information in a WIG file, or there was a BED file embedded inside of a WIG file.
However, if a file is an accepted format, but does not follow a standard format, the user is only told that IGB is "Unable to load data set for this file." In the future it may be helpful to the user to provide more information as to why the file was unable to load, i.e. no header/track line given, number of columns does not match accepted format, etc. This would allow the user to better diagnose the issue, and help keep them from immediately placing the fault on IGB.
