Hi Hiram!
You were right!
It was very straightforward to download the 2bit file and to use 
twoBitToFa to create a fast file of sequences given a bed file of regions.
Thanks very much for your help!
Kumar

On 2/25/2011 11:21 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
> We do not keep sequence data in the database.
> The sequence is in the 2bit file.  You will need
> to have the 2bit file available to extract
> sequence.  The file is less than 1 Gb of data.
> Use the twoBitToFa program to solve all your problems.
> Please make sure your customers have a proper license
> to use the kent software.
>
> --Hiram
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B.Kumar"<[email protected]>
> To: "Hiram Clawson"<[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], "B.Kumar"<[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 9:11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Cannot access cart tables in central (nor backupcentral) 
> database. Please check central and backupcentral settings in the hg.conf file 
> and the databases they specify.
>
> The reasons I was trying to use the sequenceForBed program are:
> - I did not want to download the huge volume of data from the UCSC
> web-site for such a small application - it is possible that users of my
> application will want to design primers for the human, rat, or mouse
> genomes - on any of the chromosomes. Besides there is the problem of
> keeping the data in sync with the UCSC site.
> - my input genomic region coordinates come in the form of a bed file.
> So the sequenceForBed program seems tailor-made for me if I can get it
> work directly on the UCSC mysql database.
> Would appreciate any further help you can give me.
> Kumar
>
> On 2/25/2011 8:56 PM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
>> You do not need to use the sequenceForBed program
>>
>> Please use the twoBitToFa program as I mentioned earlier.
>>
>> --Hiram
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "B.Kumar"<[email protected]>
>> To: "Hiram Clawson"<[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected], "B.Kumar"<[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:16:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: Cannot access cart tables in central (nor backupcentral) 
>> database. Please check central and backupcentral settings in the hg.conf 
>> file and the databases they specify.
>>
>> Hi Hiram!
>> Thanks for your prompt response.
>> When I tried the 3-line .hg.conf file that you suggested, the
>> sequenceForBed program failed immediately with the message:
>>
>> Can't find profile central in hg.conf
>>
>> Would appreciate any more help you can give me.
>> Thanks!
>> Kumar
>>
>> On 2/25/2011 10:45 AM, Hiram Clawson wrote:
>>> Good Morning:
>>>
>>> You can avoid all of this trouble by downloading the .2bit sequence file,
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/hg19.2bit
>>>
>>> And then use the twoBitToFa program to extract sequence from this
>>> file with locations specified in a file.  This type of sequence
>>> extraction
>>> needs no access to the database.
>>>
>>> If other functions of your procedure need database access, you can use
>>> the simple .hg.conf file with three lines as indicated:
>>>
>>> db.host=genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu
>>> db.user=genomep
>>> db.password=password
>>>
>>> You do not need all of the other .hg.conf parameters to use the
>>> public mysql server.  that other business is for running a local
>>> copy of the genome browser.
>>>
>>> I hope this information is helpful.  Please feel free to contact the
>>> genome mail list (one list only please) again if you require
>>> further assistance.
>>>
>>> --Hiram
>>>
>>>
>
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