The GenomicFeatures package in BioC 2.6 (w/ R-devel) supports the 
following set of transcript tables provided by UCSC:

                                    track           subtrack
knownGene                     UCSC Genes <NA>
knownGeneOld3             Old UCSC Genes <NA>
wgEncodeGencodeManualRel2  Gencode Genes    Genecode Manual
wgEncodeGencodeAutoRel2    Gencode Genes      Genecode Auto
wgEncodeGencodePolyaRel2   Gencode Genes     Genecode PolyA
ccdsGene                   Consensus CDS <NA>
refGene                     RefSeq Genes <NA>
xenoRefGene                 Other RefSeq <NA>
vegaGene                      Vega Genes Vega Protein Genes
vegaPseudoGene                Vega Genes   Vega Pseudogenes
ensGene                    Ensembl Genes <NA>
acembly                    AceView Genes <NA>
sibGene                        SIB Genes <NA>
nscanPasaGene                     N-SCAN    N-SCAN PASA-EST
nscanGene                         N-SCAN             N-SCAN
sgpGene                        SGP Genes <NA>
geneid                      Geneid Genes <NA>
genscan                    Genscan Genes <NA>
exoniphy                        Exoniphy <NA>
augustusHints                   Augustus     Augustus Hints
augustusXRA                     Augustus   Augustus De Novo
augustusAbinitio                Augustus Augustus Ab Initio
acescan                          ACEScan <NA>


Patrick

On 3/16/10 1:18 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> I think his problem is not access to UCSC but retrieving the exon 
> locations. The transformation of the coordinate systems is a simple 
> shift() call, once you have the exons. I don't know about Ensembl, but 
> the GenomicFeatures package provides the UCSC predictions.
>
> I just realized yesterday that all of the gene predictions stored 
> within UCSC have the same, documented table format. Presumably 
> rtracklayer could convert these into something like what is provided 
> by GenomicFeatures, but I think GenomicFeatures already has a function 
> for doing that (building the DB). Could the utilities in 
> GenomicFeatures be slightly generalized to support the alternative 
> gene predictions in UCSC?
>
> Sorry for sort of hijacking the thread...
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Patrick Aboyoun <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Jason,
>     The rtracklayer provides an interface to the UCSC browser. In
>     particular rtracklayer::export can export a SimpleRleList to a bed
>     file that you can upload to UCSC.
>
>     Patrick
>
>
>
>     On 3/16/10 6:50 AM, Jason Lu wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I would like get suggestions on what is the best way to do this. I
>         have a "SimpleRleList" object, in which the range coordinates are
>         relevant to an ensembl transcript (ranges from 1 to the total
>         length
>         of the transcript). I would like to show my data on the UCSC
>         browser,
>         so I need to map those coordinates to the genome. Currenty I
>         wrote my
>         own script to do this, based on the exon locations from
>         biomart. There
>         got to be an easy way to do this, but don't seem to find a quick
>         answer. Sorry if this has been answered.
>
>         Thanks.
>
>         Jason
>
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