Hi Brooke,

Thanks for your reply - its helpful!

Just to be sure, may I ask what usually follows when theres a change of id? Is 
it just an id change per se or any modification of bases/coordinates etc?

Thanks again!

On 08-Oct-2011, at 2:46 AM, Brooke Rhead wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The issue is that the RefSeq identifier in your example has been 
> replaced by RefSeq.  If you go to:
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NM_214677.1?report=genbank
> 
> You will see the message:
> 
>  NCBI Reference Sequence: NM_214677.1
>  This sequence has been replaced by NR_026707.
> 
> The reason you can still find a reference to it in the knownGene track 
> on hg18 is that that track was updated in 2009 (see the "Data last 
> updated" note at the top of the page).  On the other hand, the refGene 
> track is updated on our site every day, so this is normal.
> 
> Admittedly, our error message is not very informative.  I have submitted 
> a request to our engineers to change it so that it is more obvious what 
> the problem is.
> 
> I suggest looking for the rest of your missing NMs in NCBI's Nucleotide 
> database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/) to see if they have 
> changed or have been replaced.  You should be able to find the current 
> set of RefSeq identifiers in the Genome Browser.
> 
> If you have further questions, please contact us again at 
> [email protected].
> 
> --
> Brooke Rhead
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> 
> 
> On 10/7/11 2:35 AM, Luqman Hakim Bin Abdul Hadi wrote:
>> Hi UCSC team,
>> 
>> I'm noticing an inconsistency of a large scale between the Browser
>> andthe Table.
>> In particular, I have a list of NMs (refseq ids) which I need to get
> its coordinates using 'track: RefSeq Genes' and 'table: refGene'. For
> brevity, lets use NM_214677 (there are other genes in my list with the
> same problem)
>> 
>> An error inn the Table browser led me to suspect that NM_214677
>> could  be missing:
>> "Note: 1 of the 1 given identifiers (e.g. NM_214677) have no match
>> intable refGene, field name or in alias table refLink, field name. Try the
> "describe table schema" button for more information about the table and
> field."
>> 
>> I proceeded to try almost every possible table but I could not find
> NM_214677. I was beginning to resign to my fate until I checked the
> Genome Browser and found NM_214677 here:
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGene?hgg_gene=uc002mie.1&hgg_prot=Q9H2X3-2&hgg_chrom=chr19&hgg_start=7734080&hgg_end=7740491&hgg_type=knownGene&db=hg18&hgsid=216140513
>> 
>> However, the link in the page (under 'Other Names for This Gene'),
> which I suppose should link me to another page gave me this error:
>> "Couldn't find NM_214677 in refLink table - database inconsistency."
>> 
>> I hope a fix is already in place, otherwise is this 'normal'? Is
>> there  any other particular way that I can search for my missing NMs?
>> 
>> Thanks!
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