To whom it may concern, My name is Brenden Chen, a postdoc fellow at Mount Sinai in New York (US). I have a few questions regarding Biomart and hope that someone could help clarify them.
Q1. Regarding ID converter, I was converting UCSC IDs to HGNC IDs a few days ago. The return at the time included several blank HGNC IDs, which is fine as, I was told later, UCSC updates their database daily whereas HGNC/Ensemble database does not. However, earlier today (Mar. 26, 2013) when I was trying with the same ID converter, while the result in the pop-up window still included blank HGNC IDs, the download file actually removed those that did not have a matching HGNC IDs. Is this "removal" functionality a revised version of Biomart ID converter or a glitch? From a user's standpoint, it's still useful to have unmatched blank IDs listed, at least we could manually fill in the blank. Now we need to manually add those UCSC IDs that do not have a matching HGNC IDs. Q2. The website seems to be maintained by several groups around the globe. One of my prior communication with Biomart mentioned that I could have further inquiries emailed to [email protected]. What is the "correct" corresponding emails for any similar question like the one above. Please advise. Thank you Brenden
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