I am teaching an undergraduate, project-oriented Computational Biology Capstone course at the University of Washington this term. The topic of this term's project has to do with an analysis of the UCSC human genome browser data, and could entail "excessive" queries to genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu (discussed at http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download29).
Here is the sort of thing we are considering doing initially: executing a program that would find every hg19 table that contains the fields chrom, chromStart, and chromEnd, and extracting those 3 columns from such tables. Do you view this as excessive? If so, do you have advice for how we should proceed with this (and, later on this term, similar) queries of the database? I appreciate any help and guidance you can give us. Sincerely, Martin Tompa Department of Computer Science & Engineering Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington. _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
