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Demo: Exploiting the UCSC Genome Browser. Stefanie Butland UBC Bioinformatics Centre butland@bioinformatics.ubc.ca. Database. UCSC Genome Gateway Structure. Custom tracks. Genome browser. Table browser. Your sequence. BLAT. Family browser. Downloadable files
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Demo: Exploiting the UCSC Genome Browser Stefanie Butland UBC Bioinformatics Centre butland@bioinformatics.ubc.ca
Database UCSC Genome Gateway Structure Custom tracks Genome browser Table browser Your sequence BLAT Family browser Downloadable files http://genome.ucsc.edu/downloads.html
Worked Examples Genome Browser • Glutaminyl-tRNA Synthetase (QARS) gene structure and sequence (see Demo 3.4 notes for guide) • BLAT of Factor VIII primers (see Demo 3.4 notes for guide ) Table Browser • Locations of simple repeats in QARS Table Browser and Custom Tracks • Known genes on chromosome 4 that contain trinucleotide repeats
Get all fields 1 2 Tabular output of simple repeats in QARS
Custom Tracks generated by the Table Browser Research Question: Which known genes in the first 25 Mb of chromosome 4 contain trinucleotide repeats? An answer to this question can be found in the intersection of the Known Genes table with the Simple Repeats table (limited to repeat period = 3) in the region chr4:1-25,000,000
Go to the Table Browser and choose the Human assembly from July 2003
Choose Browser Tracks - Known Genes, and click Describe table for info on Known Genes content
for Position, enter ‘chr4:1-25000000’ and click Advanced query… • under Select Output Format for knownGene, choose Custom Track… and scroll down the page
under (Optional) Intersect Results with Another Table, choose Browser Tracks – Simple Repeats, and click Intersect Results
under (Optional) Filter simpleRepeat Records by Field Values, select period is = 3 and click Custom Track...
click Get Custom Track File to view the text output, then go back and click Get Custom Track to view this graphically in the Genome Browser
click Get Custom Track File to view the text output, then go back and click Get Custom Track to view this graphically in the Genome Browser
Find a way to zoom in on one of the genes with a repeat and turn the Simple Repeats track on in pack mode to view these
Research Question: Which known genes in the first 25 Mb of chromosome 4 contain trinucleotide repeats? Related questions: • How many genes is this? • Conduct the query in reverse - how many trinucleotide repeats are in known genes in the first 25 Mb of chromosome 4. • Can you explain the difference between the results of these queries?
. . . Data Downloads http://genome.ucsc.edu/downloads.html
Other Examples For other examples to work through, see: • “Creating custom annotation tracks” section of the User’s Guide http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTracksHelp.html • Table Browser paper, Karolchik et al (2004) NAR 32:D493-D496