Hi Ivan, There is now a "Data last updated" line showing the modification date of the knownGene table on the UCSC Genes page. Thanks again for the suggestion.
-- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 08/11/11 11:39, Brooke Rhead wrote: > 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 outdated since.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 _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
