[genome-announce] New chromosome aliases search support
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Jairo Navarro Gonzalez
Nov 3, 2016, 1:24:52 PM11/3/16
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Hello All -
Have you ever wanted to use 1 instead of chr1 to search for a chromosome position?
The hg38 assembly now supports a new feature of matching different chromosome aliases. Equivalent entries only exist in the new table, chromAlias, when an exact sequence match has been verified. This feature is limited to searching coordinates, it is not yet supported for custom tracks.
For example, aliases that now map to chr1 are NC_000001.11, CM000663.2, and 1, so that a hg38 search such as CM000663.2 16,560,000 16,615,000 will be equivalent to chr1 16,560,000 16,615,000.
As always, any questions or feedback may be sent to our public mailing list at gen...@soe.ucsc.edu.
Jairo Navarro
Have you ever wanted to use 1 instead of chr1 to search for a chromosome position?
The hg38 assembly now supports a new feature of matching different chromosome aliases. Equivalent entries only exist in the new table, chromAlias, when an exact sequence match has been verified. This feature is limited to searching coordinates, it is not yet supported for custom tracks.
For example, aliases that now map to chr1 are NC_000001.11, CM000663.2, and 1, so that a hg38 search such as CM000663.2 16,560,000 16,615,000 will be equivalent to chr1 16,560,000 16,615,000.
As always, any questions or feedback may be sent to our public mailing list at gen...@soe.ucsc.edu.
Jairo Navarro
UCSC Genomics Institute
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