Posting for a colleague: <post> I'm looking for tools to do a little data mining in the NCBI data base. Specifically what I'm interested in is obtaining the EST frequency as a measure of the expression levels of members of a particular gene family (Na/K ATPases) by organism (mouse) and tissue type (heart). I've browsed the EST database and it looks like the data is in there but what I need is a tool that can search all records in each relevant data base. Any ideas or pointers in the right direction? </post>
It sounds like what he needs is an SQL-like interface to dbEST; is there such a thing extant or is this something that will have to be writ using a bio* toolkit to NCBI's or other API? It does look like Ensembl's Biomart could answer questions like this tho - can anyone confirm? -- Harry Mangalam - Research Computing, NACS, E2148, Engineering Gateway, UC Irvine 92697 949 824 0084(o), 949 285 4487(c) -- [A Nation of Sheep breeds a Government of Wolves. Edward R. Murrow] _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
