Hello again, Good news, the Entrez Gene ID are still stored in the locusLinkId field for the refLink table. The IDs are not unique.
Some earlier answers on the same topic that may be helpful: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2005-February/006680.html https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2009-August/019882.html Jen ------------------------------------------------ Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ----- "Jennifer Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Jennifer Jackson" <[email protected]> > To: "Huei-Hun Elizabeth Tseng" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 3:48:18 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [Genome] Is LocusLinkID the Entrez Gene ID? > > Hello, > > Entrez has replaced Locus link. > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/ > To search by an Entrez Gene, use the gene symbol. > Open the Table browser up to the UCSC Genes track (contains RefSeq > plus other sources, see track description page) and enter the gene > symbol into the identifier filter to get the results. More than one > transcript for a particular gene may be found (variants). The UCSC > transcript IDs are unique. > > Some Table browser help: > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTablesHelp.html > > If you need more help, please let us know, > Jennifer > > ------------------------------------------------ > Jennifer Jackson > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > ----- "Huei-Hun Elizabeth Tseng" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: "Huei-Hun Elizabeth Tseng" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 2:30:15 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada > Pacific > > Subject: [Genome] Is LocusLinkID the Entrez Gene ID? > > > > We'd like to use the Entrez Gene ID from NCBI for the human coding > > genes, > > however when we looked at the table RefLink, we only saw a field > > called > > "LocusLinkID". Is that the same as Entrez Gene ID and are they > > unique? > > > > Thanks, > > Elizabeth > > _______________________________________________ > > Genome maillist - [email protected] > > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
