Hi Vinayak,

As you can see from the "Methods" section of the RefSeq Genes 
description page, the refSeq RNAs were aligned to against the human 
genome using blat.

This means that we obtain the refSeq RNAs from NCBI with out any 
coordinate data and then generate our own coordinate data by aligning 
the refSeq RNA sequence against the human genome using blat. NCBI may be 
aligning the RNAs with a different program (or different parameters) and 
that is why there are slight differences between UCSC's coordinates and 
NCBI's coordinates.

Please don't hesitate to contact the mail list again if you have any 
further questions.

Katrina Learned
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

Vinayak Kulkarni wrote:
> Dear UCSC folks,
>
> I was looking at the gene SLC35D1, transcriptID : NM_015139.2
>
> This is where UCSC says it maps on the genome :
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgc?hgsid=146079382&o=67465014&t=67520080&g=refGene&i=NM_015139&c=chr1&l=67466148&r=67466208&db=hg19&pix=800
>
> However the starts and stops on NCBI are a little different,
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=search&term=23169
>
> I wanted to know if there a difference in the way the alignments for UCSC
> v/s NCBI work, or am I missing something?
>
> Thank you very much for your thoughts,
> Have a good day,
> Vinayak.
>
>   
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