Hi Emon, Please see the description page for our CpG Islands track: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=cpgIslandExt. This previously answered question may also be useful: https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2010-April/021971.html
Feel free to contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further questions. --- Luvina Guruvadoo UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 6/21/2012 3:59 PM, Emon Elboudwarej wrote: > Hello, > > My Name is Emon Elboudwarej, I am a researcher at the University of > California Berkeley. I conduct DNA methylation research and I have asked > the company Illumina as to how they define what a CpG shore and shelf are. > They have informed me that they get this information directly from the UCSC > genome browser and I was wondering how you have gotten your definition for > a CpG island, shore, and shelf. Was this an arbitrary definition set by > you, or is there a specific source that you cite for this definition. Any > and all help is greatly appreciated. I want to make sure I am citing the > genome browser in my manuscript correctly. Thank you very much, and I hope > to hear from you soon. Take care. > > Best, > Emon Elboudwarej > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
