Hi again Paul, I just confirmed with one of our engineers that refSeqStatus.mol="mRNA" corresponds only to RefSeq IDs that begin with "NM_"; so, either way of determining whether a RefSeq gene is protein-coding will work.
-- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 04/12/11 15:58, Brooke Rhead wrote: > Hi Paul, > > You can also get this information directly from RefSeq accession number. > See: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/RefSeq/key.html#accessions > > -- > Brooke Rhead > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > > On 04/12/11 05:55, Paul Igor Costea wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get some classifications done and i need to know the type and >> status of a refSeq gene. >> I've been able to get the status from the "refSeqStatus" table, but seem to >> be unable to get the gene_type. By gene type i mean (especially) things like >> "protein_coding". If it safe to assume that if the molecular type (given by >> refSeqStatus.mol) = "mRNA" then it is protein coding? >> >> Thank you, >> Paul Costea >> SciLifeLab, Stockholm >> _______________________________________________ >> Genome maillist - [email protected] >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
