Hello Steve, There is not literature archive associated with the UCSC Browser, but each track does contain some references on the track description pages. You might try looking at some of the gene and gene prediction tracks (such as UCSC Genes). The credits/references there might lead to literature published or used by the track authors, which may lead you to other literature sources. The main Genbank gene track (RefSeq Genes) certainly has published literature at NCBI and probably some stats concerning intergenic regions (density, distribution, etc. per chrom or genome).
What the Browser would be good for is calculating or estimating this type of statistic yourself. Pick a gene track, exclude it from the chromosome as a whole (5' to 3', including all UTR and introns) and export the result as a file or custom track. The Table browser is a tool we offer for this type of query. Here is link to the main help: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#TableBrowser We hope this helps even though it does not solve your exact problem. Best of luck with your research, Jennifer ------------------------------------------------ Jennifer Jackson UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ----- "Steve Oh" <s...@ucsf.edu> wrote: > From: "Steve Oh" <s...@ucsf.edu> > To: gen...@soe.ucsc.edu > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:37:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: [Genome] simple question-maybe > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find some literature describing what proportion of > > the human genome is composed of intergenic sequences. A lot of the > literature I've found includes intronic sequence. Is there a way to > > find this on the USCS browser? > > Thanks, > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - Genome@lists.soe.ucsc.edu > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - Genome@lists.soe.ucsc.edu https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
