Hello,

The track descriptions are contained in the mySQL database in the table 
"<db>.trackDb.html". An query against the public mySQL server to 
retrieve this data from the Human Mar. 2006 (hg18) assembly would look 
like this:

$ mysql --user=genome --host=genome-mysql.cse.ucsc.edu -A -e "select 
tableName, html from trackDb;" hg18 >& output_list

http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads#download29

Good luck and please let us know if you need more help,
Jennifer Jackson
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

Asmann, Yan W., Ph.D. wrote:
> Thanks Jennifer.
> I am working to intersect with the tracks in batch. So the schema in SQL
> files works for me.
>
> I have another questions. On your web site, I can go to a schema web
> page (e.g. http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables). The web page
> provides a more human understandable name for each table For example,
> table name multiz17way is not so readable, but the description in the
> schema web page provides information about the table: "This track shows
> a measure of evolutionary conservation in 17 vertebrates, including
> mammalian, amphibian, bird, and fish species, based on a phylogenetic
> hidden Markov model, phastCons (Siepel et al., 2005). Multiz alignments
> of the following assemblies were used to generate this track". 
>
> So, is there a place that I can download the descriptions in bulk?
>
> Thank you so much for your helps!!
> Yan  
>
>
>   
>> Yan Asmann, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics |
>>     
> Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics| College of Medicine |
> 507-266-6818 | Fax: 507-284-0360 | [email protected]
>   
>> Mayo Clinic | 200 First Street SW | Rochester, MN 55905 |
>>     
> www.mayoclinic.org
>   
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Jackson [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:59 PM
> To: Asmann, Yan W., Ph.D.
> Cc: Kayla Smith; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Genome] Genomic Regions of Interest
>
> Hello Yan,
>
> If data came from:
>
> http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/database/
>
>
> Then the schema information is in two locations:
> - Table browser - bring up the table and click on "describe table
> schema"
> - Downloads - for each file *.txt.gz there is a schema in *.sql
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer Jackson
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>
> Asmann, Yan W., Ph.D. wrote:
>   
>> Hi Kayla,
>> I downloaded all the txt.gz data from the ftp site. I am writing my
>>     
> own
>   
>> script to exact information from each table. But I just realized that
>>     
> I
>   
>> need table schema for each of the tables. Where can I download this
>> information at one place?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help!
>> Yan 
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Yan Asmann, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics |
>>>     
>>>       
>> Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics| College of Medicine
>>     
> |
>   
>> 507-266-6818 | Fax: 507-284-0360 | [email protected]
>>   
>>     
>>> Mayo Clinic | 200 First Street SW | Rochester, MN 55905 |
>>>     
>>>       
>> www.mayoclinic.org
>>   
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kayla Smith [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:20 PM
>> To: Asmann, Yan W., Ph.D.
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Genome] Genomic Regions of Interest
>>
>>
>> Hello Yan,
>>
>> The approach I would take to this problem is to first create a "Custom
>> Track" of your regions of interest, and then intersect existing
>> annotation tracks with that Custom Track.  
>>
>> Here is some information on custom tracks,
>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom
>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html
>>
>> Or if you'd like to download data and write your own scripts to search
>> through it, here is our downloads page for hg18 (sometimes takes
>>     
> awhile
>   
>> to load):
>> http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/database/
>>
>> Please note that the Galaxy website has some kind intersection tools
>>     
> as
>   
>> well:
>> http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/
>>
>> I hope some of these tools will be useful to you.  Please don't
>>     
> hesitate
>   
>> to contact us again if you require further assistance.
>>
>> Kayla Smith
>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>>
>> ----- "Yan W. Asmann, Ph.D." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>> I am interested in finding out all features of particular genomic
>>> regions. One way to do this is by looking at all overlapping Genome
>>> Browser Tracks. To do this at the interactive web browser, I'd have
>>> to
>>> look at one track or several tracks at a time. Is there a better way
>>> of
>>> doing this?  
>>>
>>> Is there an option to download data for all tracks, so I can write a
>>> script to search for tracks overlapping with my regions of interest? 
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Yan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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