Hi Edge,

 > perfectly fine." In biology behaviour of human genome, is it normal
 > that 3'-UTR overlap with 5'-UTR?

There is a bug in the Table Browser that I think is causing a lot of 
confusion here.  When you choose to retrieve 3' UTR or 5' UTR output 
from a region where there is a non-coding gene, the Table Browser should 
not return any result for that non-coding gene.  We have recorded this 
bug and we hope to fix it eventually.  In the meantime, you will need 
another way to distinguish UTRs from genes that are entirely non-coding.

 > Can I know that whether UCSC got provide the coordinates of human
 > miRNA? If yes, can I know how to extract it out?

There are several tracks that include miRNA annotations.  To decide 
which track you want to use, you can click on the track name on the main 
Genome Browser page (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks) and read 
about where the data comes from and how recent it is.  Some tracks you 
might want to consider on hg19 are:  sno/miRNA, tRNA Genes, RefSeq 
Genes, UCSC Genes (which contains annotations based on data from RefSeq, 
Genbank, CCDS, UniProt, Rfam, and the tRNA Genes track), and GENCODE.

To get coordinate positions, there is no need to retrieve sequence from 
the Table Browser.  There are two different ways to get coordinate 
positions.  The first is to choose either "all fields from selected 
table" or "selected fields from primary and related tables" as the 
output format.  The start and stop coordinates will be included in the 
output.  Also, if the table includes UTRs (as in the refGene and 
knownGene tables, for instance), you can calculate the positions of the 
UTRs by subtracting txStart from cdsStart and cdsEnd from txEnd.  (To 
see a description of the fields of any table, select it in the Table 
Browser and hit the "describe table schema" button.)  To read more about 
the way genome coordinates are stored in our tables, see: 
http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Coordinate_Transforms.

The other way to get coordinate positions is to select the "BED - 
browser extensible data" as the output format.  BED format is described 
here:  http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format1.  If you use 
this method, you will be able to limit the output to just the UTRs. 
However, you will run into the bug described above of completely 
non-coding genes showing up in the output.

I hope this helps explain what you are seeing in the Genome Browser and 
helps you get a start on using the Table Browser.  If you haven't seen 
the Open Helix tutorials on the Browser, especially the Table Browser 
tutorial, you might find these helpful:  http://www.openhelix.com/ucsc.

If you have further questions, please contact us again at 
[email protected].

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 6/28/12 6:08 PM, Edge Edge wrote:
> Dear Professor,
>
>
> According your previous reply, "This is why you see overlap between
> the 5’ UTR of uc010nxq.1 and the 3’ UTR of uc001aaa.3 and this is
> perfectly fine." In biology behaviour of human genome, is it normal
> that 3'-UTR overlap with 5'-UTR?
>
> Can I know that whether UCSC got provide the coordinates of human
> miRNA? If yes, can I know how to extract it out?
>
> I got try to extract out the human exon coordinates by using the
> following method: 1. Set the following options: Group: Genes and Gene
> Prediction Tracks Track: RefSeq Genes Table: knownGene Output format:
> sequence
>
> 2. Click the "get output" button
>
> 3. Select "genomic" and click the "submit" button
>
> 4. Check the " CDS Exons "
>
> 5. Click the "get sequence" button
>
> From the result, it shown that
>> hg19_refGene_NM_032291 range=chr1:67000042-67208778 5'pad=0 3'pad=0
>> strand=+ repeatMasking=none
> However, when I check the coordinates through UCSC Genome Browser, it
> shown that chr1:67,000,042-67,208,778 is fall in Gene region but not
> exons of that particular gene.
>
> Can I know how to just extract the coordinate of each exon in every
> gene? My main purpose just hope can extract the coordinates of
> promoter, 3'-UTR, 5'-UTR, miRNA, rRNA, tRNA, exon position of human
> by using UCSC.
>
> Really thanks for your advice. Many thanks for your explanation in
> detail previously. Very helpful and learn a lot from your
> explanation. I'm very fresh at bioinformatics.
>
> Thanks.
>
> best regards Edge Research Student
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