Hello again Sean, May also point out that you can use our public MySQL server to access this data: http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download29
Please contact us again at [email protected] if you have any further questions. --- Luvina Guruvadoo UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 5/24/2012 2:28 PM, Luvina Guruvadoo wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
