Hi Kraig,

You can get chainSwap utility as a part of our source downloads.
You can find instructions about downloading and installing kent source
utilities here:

http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#source_downloads
http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/jk-install.html

With the actual source download residing here:
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.zip

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

Best,
Mary
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Mary Goldman
UCSC Bioinformatics Group


On 11/16/10 2:29 PM, Kraig Stevenson wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
>
> My name is Kraig Stevenson, and I am a PhD student in bioinformatics at the
> University of Michigan. I would like to request the chainSwap utility.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> -Kraig
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jim Kent<[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Reverse chain files for LiftOver tool
> To: Kraig Stevenson<[email protected]>
>
>
> In general you will want to generate a separate chain file for the reverse.
>   I _think_ you'll end up with just a 5% less good result if you basically
> swap the target and query sequences in the chain.  We have a chainSwap
> utility at UCSC that will do that.  If this is the route you decide to take,
> please contact [email protected] to get the utility.  It'd be best if you
> got in contact with whoever generated the chain file in the first place
> though.
>
> Take care,
> Jim
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Kraig Stevenson wrote:
>
> Hello Dr. Kent,
>
> My name is Kraig Stevenson, and I am a bioinformatics PhD student at the
> University of Michigan. I have extensively used your LiftOver tool to go
> between species, and I currently have a chain file that lifts coordinates
> from one (non-sequenced) species to a (sequenced) species (this was given to
> us by a collaborator). Now I would actually like to go in the opposite
> direction, but I am not sure how to go about this. Is there a way to reverse
> the chain file so that the LiftOver tool could accomplish this task? Could
> the LiftUp tool be used in this situation?
>
> Any advice you might have would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Kraig
>
>    
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