Hi Rina, You can find out about more about our genome assembly data from our Genomes page (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway) which you can get to by clicking on "Genome" from the blue navigation bar. The information on the page will tell you about the assembly and where we obtained the data from. To find out about other assemblies you will need to select them from the drop downs. These pages are a good place to start from. If there are particular genomes you are interested in, you can do an internet search to get the specifics.
Here is a link to information about how the human genome was assembled: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/faq/seqfacts.shtml#whose Also, each assembly has own set of tracks or data associated with them. These tracks have description pages pages that tell about the data and are linked from within the particular genome browser. Here is the description page for the UCSC Genes track for the hg19 human genome assembly: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&c=chr21&g=knownGene Hope this helps you to understand the data behind our browser. If you have further questions, please contact the mailing list: [email protected] Vanessa Kirkup Swing UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rina T. Greenblatt <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:17 PM Subject: [Genome] Unanswered Questions To: [email protected] To whom this may concern, My name is Rina Greenblatt and I currently attend Rutgers University in New Jersey. This semester I am working as a Research Assistant at Dr. Andrzej (Andre) Pietrzykowski 'Adaption, Reward, and Addiction' Laboratory. This week's assignment has been to find out more about your Genome Browser. Before contacting you, I did look online under the FAQ already and searched the archives for some answers, but didn't find any. We are wondering where the data you have acquired came from. Are the genomes available made up of a compilation of many smaller sequences? If so, where did these sequences come from? Where there samples taken from various different people? If yes, from approximately how many? What sort of backgrounds did these people come from because that may alter the sequence slightly. Any information you can provide would be extremely helpful and if you can not answer the above questions please direct me to someone who might be able to. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Rina Greenblatt Adaption, Reward, Adiction Laboratory Dr. Andrzej (Andre) Pietrzykowski Endocrine Research Building 67 Poultry Farm Lane m: (908) 884-5915 _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
