>
>
> I think we could divide this into two types, MySQL version using public
> mysql database and Collection version downloaded from UCSC website (.sql and
> .txt.gz files). For MySQL version, we could identify "type" of table by
> "desc" SQL syntax and supply convenient method to query/retrieve annotations
> from public mysql server, just like ensembl module by Jenny.
>

I could try the mysql version.  Could you clarify the point of doing both?

thanks,
Jenny


> For Collection version, we could download .sql file from web and
> parse/identify table types, then add AnnotationDB by reading .txt.gz files.
>
> I think I could do the Collection version and add to the biodb2 XMLRPC
> server. Proposed table will be Gene prediction, Repeats, SNP tables.
>
>
> --
> Namshin Kim
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Christopher Lee <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Jenny Qing Qian wrote:
>>
>> > As the ensembl database, the ucsc database has various kinds of
>> > annotation feature tables like exons and genes.  I am not sure
>> > whether they also have a seq_region table.  I assume they directly
>> > map their annotations to their reference genomes, not via
>> > contigs...  If this is the case, then we could just simplify the
>> > seqregion.py and work out the mapping.  Agree?
>> >
>> > There is no seqregion table.
>> >
>> > Thanks.  That helps to simplify the case.  If they don't store the
>> > sequences at contig-level in a separate table, they probably don't
>> > need a seqregion table for coordinates transformation.
>>
>> I'd expect that UCSC would map the Ensembl annotations directly onto
>> their own assembly (i.e. no more seq_region; "stop the madness!"), and
>> it sounds like that's what they've actually done.  If you can identify
>> a few candidate tables in their MySQL server that store gene and exon
>> annotations, we can quickly do an experiment to see how hard it would
>> be to plug these annotations into Pygr.  I bet it'll be
>> straightforward, and could be good to include in the tutorial.
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"pygr-dev" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to