On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Amir Karger wrote: > If I do a query in Biomart for Vega Gene IDs: > > OTTHUMG00000131472 > OTTHUMG00000017411 > > I get the second (BRCA2) but not the first (YES1). Any idea why? YES1 is > on chr18, so it's not one of the chromosomes Vega is missing (2, 4, 5, > 11). I think part of the problem may be on Ensembl's side: they don't > associate YES1 with the corresponding OTT number > (http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/geneview?gene=ENSG00000176105), > even though the Vega website does > (http://vega.sanger.ac.uk/Homo_sapiens/geneview?gene=OTTHUMG00000131472&; > db=core).
Seems OTTHUMG00000131472 is not in homo_sapiens_vega_42_36d and therefore nowhere within the main ensembl site or biomart. Anyone know why this id appears on the vega website but not ensembl's? Thanks Damian > > I believe I could find other examples if necessary. In related or > unrelated news, Biomart 'count' finds only 57 genes with HUGO IDs on > chr18, even though I'm pretty sure there are many more. (I wrote 250 in > an email, though I don't remember how I got that number.) > > Thoughts? > > - Amir Karger > Research Computing > Life Sciences Division > Harvard University > 617-496-0626 >
