Hi Vanessa, This clarifies the mystery. I think that this probably be better documented in the page that you pointed. As of now, it is not clear from that page.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Vanessa Kirkup Swing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peng, > > The field name is for display purposes and is not unique for cpgIslandExt. > > Please take a look at this schema for hg19: > > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?db=hg19&hgta_group=regulation&hgta_track=cpgIslandExt&hgta_table=cpgIslandExt&hgta_doSchema=describe+table+schema > > The name field comprises this: > "CpG: " + the value in the cpgNum field (this value is the"Number of CpGs in > island") > > Looking at the schema you can see that the cpgNum value is the"Number of > CpGs in island" > > I hope this clarifies your question. If you have further questions, please > email the list: [email protected]. > > Vanessa Kirkup Swing > UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Peng Yu <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM > Subject: [Genome] What is the name field in cpgIslandExt? > To: [email protected] > > > Hi, > > It seems that the field 'name' in cpgIslandExt is not unique. I'd > suppose that each CpG island should have a unique name. Since it is > not, I'm wondering what this name field is for. Could anybody help if > you happen to know? Thanks! > > -- > Regards, > Peng > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > -- Regards, Peng _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
