Repost: Subject: Re: algorithm in liftOver Sent By "Peng Yu" <[email protected]> On: January 5, 2010 12:55 PM To: [email protected]
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't find a paper that describes how liftOver works. Could somebody > let me know the algorithm used in liftOver? > > Are the chain files be generated by aligning two version of gnomic > sequence (say mm6, mm8)? > > Why there are no direct map between, say, mm6 and mm8? > > liftOver accept BED files? But the strand field is optional in BED > files. Does liftOver guarantee that a gnomic location has to be map to > the same strand ('+' or '-'), if the strand field in BED is not > specified? > ------------------------------------------------ Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
