Dear Claudio,
could you send me the URL of the BioMart portal you are using so i can
 look into it?

thank you
a

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Claudio Joazeiro <[email protected]>wrote:

> To whom it may concern:
>
> We are having a problem with the 3' UTR setting of the BioMart Central
> Portal interface. It feels like a bug in the underlying database, so we are
> hoping you would be able to diagnose/fix it.
>
> We need to retrieve the 3' UTRs of yeast genes. I have tried to do this in
> a couple of ways:
>
> TRIAL 1:
>
> DATABASE: Ensembl
> Datasets: S cerevisiae genes
> Sequences: 3' UTR
> Upstream Flank: (blank)
> Downstream Flank (blank)
> Filters: (default)
> Header: Ensembl Gene ID and Associated Gene Name
>
> The result I got was: “Sequence unavailable” for all genes
>
> Then I attempted TRIAL 2:
>
> DATABASE: Ensembl
> Datasets: S cerevisiae genes
> Sequences: Flank-coding region (not ideal, though, as this is expected to
> yield longer sequences than those we're looking for)
> Upstream Flank: (blank)
> Downstream Flank: 100 (this is also a problem because although the median
> length of yeast 3' UTRs is 104 bp, they can be as long as ~1,000 bp, so we
> would be missing sequences)
> Filters: (default)
> Header: Ensembl Gene ID and Associated Gene Name
>
> This works, but with the above caveats.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Claudio Joazeiro, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Cell Biology
> The Scripps Research Institute
> CB-163
> 10550 N Torrey Pines Rd
> La Jolla, CA  92037
>
> Phone: (858) 784-7570
> Fax: (858) 784-9779
>
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