Hi Sean, For each database there is the metaDb table that can be accessed through our Table Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?). Change "group" to "All Tables" and select table "metaDb". You can find more information on this table by clicking "describe table schema". This table is a var, val pair list format that can be used to scrape the metaData of all files for all ENCODE data for a specific database.
Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further questions. --- Luvina Guruvadoo UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 5/23/2012 5:58 PM, Sean Davis wrote: > I have been watching the development of web-based tools for visualizing the > availability of ENCODE data hosted at UCSC. I am interested in whether > there are any methods for accessing metadata about ENCODE programmatically. > I can walk through all the directories that I can find and get the > files.txt files for each directory, but I'd like to have something a little > less fragile. Is there a database table or a "grand" files.txt file that > could be used? Alternatively, is the an API that will not require screen > scraping? > > Thanks, > Sean > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
