On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Angie Hinrichs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brent,
>
> Regarding this part of your original email:
>
>> chrom,txStart,txEnd,cdsStart,cdsEnd,K.name,X.geneSymbol,proteinID,strand,exonStarts,exonEnds
>> from knownGene as K,kgXref as X where  X.kgId=K.name
> ...
>> I have seen this: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQtracks#tracks1 so the
>> internal format matches the BED format, correct?
>
> Actually, those columns are from an internal format that we call genePred.  
> BED has a bit different column order, and it has a very different encoding of 
> block coordinates: instead of lists of starts and ends like genePred, BED has 
> a list of block sizes followed by a list of block starts -- but each block 
> start is relative to the overall chromStart (analogous to genePred's 
> txStart), so block starts always begin at 0.
>
> The Table Browser has BED as one of its output formats, so it's the easiest 
> way to get BED for a genePred table (or just about any non-BED table that has 
> chrom, start, end and other fields).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Angie
>
>

Aye, I didn't ask that part clearly; just meant that it uses 0-based,
half-open intervals like bed. Originally I was thinking maybe I was
misunderstanding the format and that's why I was seeing the funky introns.

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