Hello Richard,

Thank you for your question. In order to receive a more timely answer 
and for the benefit of all of our users, for whom we try to have the 
most comprehensive archives, I would appreciate it if you resent your 
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matter.

Best regards,

Pauline Fujita

UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
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On 6/7/11 2:09 PM, Richard Badge wrote:
> Hi Pauline,
> 
> I wonder you could clarify what "somewhat involved" is. 
> 
> I can see how using blat to align the sequences would be feasible, but we 
> would still need to parse the alignment to achieve equivalencing between base 
> positions in the two strains. 
> 
> I was assuming that the over.chain file, once generated, could be used as a 
> substrate for the liftover utility, along with our list of SNPs to convert 
> coordinates between the two. As we have 24 complete genomes worth of SNPs, 
> manually or even scripted individual alignments would seem an inefficient 
> approach...
> 
> Any light that you could shed would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
> On 3 Jun 2011, at 02:11, Pauline Fujita wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hello Richard,
>> 
>> Unfortunately we cannot provide lifts between species we do not display 
>> in the browser let alone strains. The process we use to generate the 
>> liftover files is somewhat involved and an easier solution would be to 
>> simply BLAT the regions you are looking to map. It sounds like you have 
>> quite a few regions - in which case we recommend downloading and using 
>> our standalone BLAT utility. You can read more about that in this FAQ:
>> 
>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQblat.html#blat3
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Pauline Fujita
>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>> http://genome.ucsc.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/01/11 05:03, Richard Badge wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear genome browser mailing list,
>>> 
>>> I came to send this email at the suggestion found on this page 
>>> (http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#Convert) that if 
>>> an over.chain file does not exist for a given pair of species that you may 
>>> be able to generate one for us...
>>> 
>>> My colleagues and I are engaged in mapping SNPs between two yeast strains 
>>> (Y55 and SK1) that have partially completed reference genome sequences. We 
>>> would like to be able to ascertain the coordinates of corresponding SNP 
>>> positions between the two genomes, as part of a recombination breakpoint 
>>> mapping project involving genome re-sequencing of meiotic tetrads.
>>> 
>>> We were aware of the utility of liftover in moving annotation from one 
>>> assembly to another, and wondered if it could similarly be used for 
>>> different strains (these are estimated to be about 0.5% diverged at the 
>>> nucleotide level). Ultimately the over.chain file will give us a means to 
>>> equate SNP positions, and to validate our sequence read mappings...
>>> 
>>> If this is a possibility, or you could let us know how such a file can be 
>>> generated, we would be very grateful,
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> Dr Richard Badge, Lecturer
>>> Department of Genetics,
>>> Office 130, Adrian Building,
>>> University of Leicester,
>>> University Road,
>>> Leicester
>>> LE1 7RH
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>>> 
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> 
> Dr Richard Badge, Lecturer
> Department of Genetics,
> University of Leicester,
> Leicester
> LE1 7RH
> Tel: 0116 2525042
> 
> 
Dr Richard Badge, Lecturer
Department of Genetics,
University of Leicester,
Leicester
LE1 7RH
Tel: 0116 2525042

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