Hi Pragna, You are correct, the output is formatted with delimiters that may cause the information to not line up perfectly in a browser window. Saving the data then importing into a file format that interprets the delimiters is a great solution for viewing data. Also, your assumption about "exon blocks" is true.
The headers for any output come directly from the tables the data is extracted from. The button "describe table schema" explains the data labels/headers (button is next to the "table" pull down menu). This works for any table. Which data is the query and which is the target will be defined here (look at the qName or tName). In general, these are the file format descriptions: http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat One more bit of information concerning coordinates. We use a "zero-based start and a one-based end". This may be important to you. A description is here: http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQtracks#tracks1 Let us know if you have more questions, Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group Patel, Pragna wrote: > I would like to know where one looks to find out what the headers in the > data output obtained using the Table Browser function are .. they are > also not aligned with the actually data which makes it difficult to > follow - so, I usually import them into Excel. > > > > For example: what is qStart and what is tStart when doing a query of > mRNA and EST tracks of a region? I am assuming that the tStart is the > beginning of the "exon block" and that one computes the ending of the > exon block by adding the numebr of bases in the block but I just want to > clarify. Is tehre a place were one can get a Glossary of all the headers > of tables using other tracks? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Pragna > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
