So to summarize, Jason needs to use GenomicFeatures to get the ensembl exons
out, get the start positions, and use them to shift his ranges.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Patrick Aboyoun <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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