Hi Jia,

Yes, you could probably do this from the net files, looking for large 
gaps in the chimpanzee chain/net. These pages should help you understand 
how our files are made and give you some ideas about how you'll need to 
manipulate them.

- http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/net.html (information on our 
download net files: 
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/vsPanTro3/)
- https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2006-August/011382.html 
(some information on our mysql net tables: 
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/netPanTro3.txt.gz)
- http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Chains_Nets
- http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=primateChainNet

I hope this information is helpful.  Please feel free to contact the 
mail list again if you require further assistance.

Best,
Mary
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Mary Goldman
UCSC Bioinformatics Group

On 6/21/11 12:06 PM, Zeng, Jia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to the Chain and Net tools so I apologize if this is an 
> obvious question.
>
> What I am trying to do is to compare the genomes of human and chimpanzee and 
> identify the mediate-sized (up to several kb) human insertion regions (ie, 
> the regions only in human genome that are in between two adjacent alignments 
> between human and chimpanzee). From what I read about the tools such as 
> LASTZ, Chain, Net etc, I think I should utilize the chain and net tools to 
> accomplish the task but I'm not certain how should I go about doing it.
>
> If anybody could kindly offer any input regarding this, it'll be greatly 
> appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> - Jia
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