Thanks, Luvina. Your two responses were exactly what I was hoping to find.
Sean On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Luvina Guruvadoo <[email protected]>wrote: > 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<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?<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<https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome> >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Genome maillist - [email protected] >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/**mailman/listinfo/genome<https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome> >> > > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
