Hello Maayan, Please see this previously answered mailing list question about the same issue:
https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2010-November/024242.html Hopefully this information was helpful and answers your question. If you have further questions or require clarification feel free to contact the mailing list at [email protected]. Regards, Pauline Fujita UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group http://genome.ucsc.edu On 11/24/10 01:08, maayan kreitzman wrote: > Hi there, > I've found a kind of serious problem with your database which is based on > the RefSeq project. > Many of the refseq accessions, when queried from the genome browser return > more than one gene, IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. > If you search, say, NM_198181, this is the case. Sometimes, like in the case > of NM_020364, the different entries are even on opposite strands. > if you want a longer list of examples like this, I can send you some more. > The mistake is somewhere in the conversion from the RefSeq database to your > software, because if you search the same accessions in Entrez you get, as > expected, ONE gene. > Reqseq documents specific, unique, verified transcripts. There should not be > more than one set of coordinates for each refseq accession. > maayan > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
