Hi Vasilis,
Unfortunately, your question is beyond the scope of this mailing list as
we we do not offer advice on scientific direction. This list is intended
to address questions concerning the use of the Genome Browser.
We do have an existing Conserved Elements track on the human hg19
assembly, which you can read more about here:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=cons46way. The papers
listed under "References" may also be useful.
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Luvina Guruvadoo
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
On 10/17/2013 4:28 AM, lenis vasilis wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> My name is Vasilis and I am a PhD student. I am a computer scientist and my knowledge in biology is limited, unfortunately.
> I want to study the conserved elements among mammals and more specific among ruminants.
> To do that first I must find a way to identify them. In order to do that I used the PhastCons files that you have for 46 species (human genome as reference). I found from these files the consecutive nucleotides with probability of conservation more than 99% and for length I am giving different values (more than: 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350 bp). After that, I�m extracting these subsequences of the reference genome (human) and I�m blast them back to each genome.
> I am finding around 49.000 conserved element with length more than 100bp all over the human genome, but when I�m blasting them to another genome for example on the mouse genome, the number of conserved are only 445. (I�m collecting only the hits with 100% similarity and the same length).
> It suppose that all of these conserved elements must be found and on the other species.
> Could you tell me if this methodology that I am following is the appropriate?
> I�m trying to find if there is a problem with my methodology or I�m miss-calculating something.