What I really want to know what I need to do to get the listed alleles to be oriented on the fwd/+ strand?
Do you internally align the dbSNP fasta sequences to the hg18 to ascertain the "strand" or are these records straight copies from dbSNP? Thanks! Paul On Mar 22, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Paul de Bakker wrote: > Hi [email protected] > > I have downloaded the dbSNP129 data from the Table browser > (database: hg18) and I wanted to check with you that the listed > "strand" field refers to the + or - strand of the genome assembly > (i.e. hg18)? That is, if I make everything on the + strand I > only need to flip the Watson-Crick bases for the SNPs where strand = > "-"? > > Thanks > Paul > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
