new video: Data Integrator

[Robert Kuhn]

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce the release of a new video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8ATcoDTOc0g&list=UUQnUJepyNOw0p8s2otX4RYQ) to the UCSC Genome Browser YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQnUJepyNOw0p8s2otX4RYQ/videos).  This video demonstrates the Data Integrator, a tool that allows data from up to five primary table to be exported.  The tables do not have to share a common data field, but are intersected using the coordinate footprint of the annotations in the first-selected dataset.

For example, even though the variants in the Common SNPs table share no identifiers with the genes in the UCSC Genes track of the human genome assembly hg19, it is possible to export a list of genes and all the Common SNPs that map to the chosen set of genes.  This functionality extends the reach of data mining beyond what is posible with the Table Browser.

Principal engineering on the Data Integrator by Angie Hinrichs, quality assurance by Matt Speir, with other contributions from the rest of the Genome Browser staff.  Video production by Robert Kuhn and David Gibson.

regards,

  --b0b kuhn

  ucsc genome bioinformatics group