yeah thanks. i'm using your tRNAs.txt, wgRNA.txt, as well as mirbase and
Biomart. seems to be working out OK. although i did like your RNAGene.txt
for hg18 which appears to have not been created for hg19. JK

> Hey Jim,
>
> You're correct that the annotated RNA element types are spread out
> through several different databases.  On top of this, there are many
> species of RNA that are poorly understood and thus poorly annotated.
> The ENCODE project, for which UCSC serves as the Data Coordination
> Center, is attempting to shed some light on this problem, but it is
> early days yet.
>
> If you want to get an idea of the variation that appears in RNA-seq
> data sets with libraries built from different cell types, and from
> different cellular compartments, you might want to check out the
> RNA-seq tracks on our preview browser.
> http://genome-preview.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=wgEncodeRnaSeqSuper
>
> This is a link to our preview browser where the data has not yet been
> through our QA process.
>
> I hope this answers your question.  If you have any follow-up
> questions, please respond to this list.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jim Kozubek
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I wrote a perl script to check all of our Tophat output against RNAgene
>> (to determine our distribution of "RNA biotypes," such as tRNA, rRNA,
>> miRNA... etc) but i get the impression that the RNAgene track is not
>> comprehensive in itself. it seems like a researcher needs to consult 4
>> or
>> 5 databases/tracks to get a full understanding of the RNA distribution
>> in
>> their seq data? in other words, RNAgene includes snoRNA but i suppose it
>> does not include all of the known snoRNA, otherwise their wouldn't be a
>> separate track for snoRNA. Thus if I have RNA seq and want to understand
>> a
>> distribution of biotypes, it seems like i would have to consult
>> independent databases on rnaGene, refFlat, snoRNA, mirbase... etc etc..?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Kozubek
>> freelance writer and MS student in genetics
>> 10 Kaya Lane
>> Mansfield Center, CT
>> 06250 (603)264-9267
>>
>> "What can be shown, cannot be said"
>> L. Wittgenstein
>>
>>
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