Hello,

Track descriptions can be found two ways:

1) In the Table browser, with the primary table selected, click on 
"describe table schema". Scroll down in the page past the scheme and the 
track description will be present with methods, sources, credits, etc.

2) From the genome assembly view, click on the track name. The track 
controls will be at the top, the track description below.

Known Genes is an older track version - it has been replaced with UCSC 
Genes in many genomes. UCSC Genes contains all of RefSeq (at the time it 
was created) plus data from Genbank, CCDS and UniProt. Please see the 
methods for the details.

Links to other datasets, including Ensembl, are in the associated 
tables. To view these (and the linking keys), follow #1 above. The top 
of the page has the track primary table's schema, but immediately below 
are the linked tables. Click on any of these to bring them up to the top 
where their schema is defined. For links to Ensembl from UCSC Genes 
(linked through transcript), see the table "knownToEnsembl".

I hope this information is helpful.  Please feel free to contact the
help mailing list again if you require further assistance.

Best regards,
Jen

UCSC Genome Browser Support
http://genome.ucsc.edu/contacts.html
[email protected]  [email protected]

On 7/6/10 1:01 PM, Hao Chen wrote:
>    I am wondering if there is any documentation on how the Known Genes in
> the table browser are defined. Also (this may be a little off topic) how
> they compare to RefSeq and Ensembl genes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hao Chen, Ph.D.
> University of Tennessee
>
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