Hi Elin, GeneSorter needs to have something in the search field. If you don't enter anything, a default entry is added to the field. I would recommend using the table browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables) if you just want a list of all genes on a chromosome.
Go to the table browser and select the clade, genome, and assembly of interest and select Groups: Genes and gene prediction tracks. Then select a set of genes (track/table), such as RefSeq. Set the Region to "Position" and enter, say, chr20 to look at all the genes on that chromosome. (The table browser should auto fill the coords for that chom, i.e. 'chr20:1-55952140'). The select Output format: all fields from selected table, and finally click "get output". I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any additional questions. - Greg Roe UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 3/21/11 2:38 AM, Elin Lundin wrote: > This is probably a very basic question but I would like to search the > Gene Sorter for all genes on a particular chromosome. Is there any way > I can make such a general search and not type in a specific gene? I > might have completely misunderstood the application for the Gene > Sorter, but it has been great for finding expression profiles for > specified genes (I uploaded a list to the filter control). I have > tried to leave the search field blank and only changed the filter > settings but my search leaves me nothing. However, a letter and figure > combination automatically turns up in the search field but I have no > idea how that is connected to my query. > > I would really appreciate if someone could help me with these trivial > questions. > Thanks in advance. > > /Elin > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
