My settings screenshot seems to be lost in at least the archive, so for
reference the capture is at:

http://traeki.freeshell.org/images/gtf_trial1.png

And the key pieces (that I'm aware of) are the settings:

group: All Tables
table: knownCanonical
output format: GTF

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, John Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying (and failing) to get the UCSC genome browser to output what I
> need, and would appreciate guidance.
>
> My goal is to get essentially the refFlat table data for the
> knownCanonical transcripts.
>
> In other words, I want to get GTF encoded information about transcripts,
> with the gene/transcript names flattened into the data, but I only want to
> see data for canonical transcripts, not all possible.
>
> Can this be done directly? If not, any suggestions for how to most simply
> approximate it by merging things on my end?
>
> The settings I've tried look like this:
>
>
>
> but this gives me lines like:
>
> chr1>---hg19_knownCanonical>----exon>---322037>-326938>-0.000000>-------.>------.>------gene_id
> "gene9"; transcript_id "tx9";-
>
> where "gene9" and "tx9" are just iterative line-by-line counters that are
> clearly meaningless because they never repeat. Meaning that each exon has a
> unique (and numerically matched) "transcript" and "gene" label with no
> semantic content.
>
> And also I don't appear to get strand information.
>
> In the past I know I've been able to get BED files that contained strand
> info and at least grouped exons by transcript, though I don't recall the
> settings that got me there...
>
> Anybody see what I r doin rong, here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John




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