Hi Ivan, Thank you for your suggestion. We agree that the track data not being updated as frequently as the source data is not very obvious on the site. We will either add a note to our description pages for UCSC Genes or we are going to make the "Data last updated" timestamp from the knownGene table more apparent on more pages (right now it is only visible from the track controls page), or both.
-- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 08/05/11 19:40, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > Hi, > > May I suggest a minor clarification for knownGene track title/description in > the Table Browser? Currently, following title is shown (hg19 example): > > "UCSC Genes Based on RefSeq, UniProt, GenBank, CCDS and Comparative Genomics" > Database: hg19 Primary Table: knownGene Row Count: 77,614 > Format description: Genes based on RefSeq, GenBank, and UniProt. > > Note, RefSeq, UniProt, and GenBank databases mentioned are all being > constantly maintained and updated on a regular basis (daily to monthly) while > knownGene track is not, AFAIK. While knownGene may have incorporated RefSeq > and UniProt annotations information at the time of initial release (e.g., > Feb. > 2009 in case of hg19), the versions of these database used has long been > outdated since. I believe this should be reflected in the description of the > table. > > I am aware of periodical updates to linked tables (e.g. ccdsKgMap and kgXref) > but this is different from UCSC gene annotations themselves, which are NOT > updated alongside with RefSeq and UniProt. > > Best, > Ivan > > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
