[mart-dev] intersection style queries in BioMart

[David M. Goodstein]

I was wondering if there are any shortcuts that enable UCSC table 
browser-style intersection queries in BioMart.  The typical application 
would be to grab all the genes that overlap a given set of sequences 
(e.g., ESTs) aligned to the reference genome.  Or does one need to 
retrieve all the spans for the alignments in questions and then 
directly query BioMart for overlap with each span?

regards,
-David

David M. Goodstein
Computational Genomics Group
Joint Genome Institute
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab