I'm having some difficulty building the source utilities on my Mac. The
online resource at UCSC is for building and installing on Linux/Unix
systems. Specifically, I am using version 10.6.5. I know this is Unix-based,
but is there a way to build the source on a Mac?

Thanks!

-Kraig

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Mary Goldman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> ------------------
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>


-- 
Kraig Stevenson
PhD candidate
U of M Bioinformatics Graduate Program

Wittkopp laboratory
1061 Natural Science Building
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048

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