Hello,

The program is in the kent source tree location: kent/src/hg/maskOutFa
http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download27

And yes, the file simpleRepeat.txt is the primary table for the track 
simpleRepeat.

Thanks,
Jennifer

------------------------------------------------ 
Jennifer Jackson 
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group 

----- "Asha Nair" <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: "Asha Nair" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jennifer Jackson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 9:38:27 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Genome] Locations on Human Genome for tandem arrays
>
> Thank you Jennifer. This helps me a lot.
> 
> How do I get to the utility maskOutFa program from BLAT? The
> downloaded
> simpleRepeat.txt file that you have mentioned would be the file with
> all the
> tandem repeats for the whole genome/or a specific region on the genome
> that
> I would get from simpleRepeat track right?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Asha
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Jennifer Jackson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Asha,
> >
> > The simpleRepeat track in the browser is based on Tandem Repeats
> Finder
> > (TRF). The table/file behind the track can be extracted from the
> Table
> > browser or downloaded.
> >
> > If you want to BLAT in a way that completely ignores those regions,
> the
> > hard-masked genomic reference sequence fasta would be the best
> choice. (But
> > know that not all simpleRepeat/TRF items are masked as the masking
> is based
> > on RepeatMasker plus only the simpleRepeat items with period of 12
> or less).
> >
> > If you want to exclude all simpleRepeat items only, then use the
> utility
> > maskOutFa program with a downloaded simpleRepeat.txt file (remove
> columns
> > other than chrom, chromStart, chromEnd and name, and rename the file
> to
> > .bed).
> >
> > Some help links:
> >
> > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html#Download
> > http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download1
> > http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTablesHelp.html
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Jennifer Jackson
> > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
> >
> > ----- "Asha Nair" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > From: "Asha Nair" <[email protected]>
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:27:44 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific
> > > Subject: [Genome] Locations on Human Genome for tandem arrays
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am looking at human genome GRCh37 and trying to search for
> locations
> > > on
> > > the genome that have tandem arrays (repetitive elements) so that
> I
> > > can
> > > eliminate those regions for my statistical calculations. Could
> you
> > > please
> > > advice if there is a source on BLAT that gives this information,
> or
> > > else how
> > > I can find these regions using BLAT?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Your help will be very much appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Asha
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> >
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