[Bioperl-l] Unigene & NCBI MapViewer

[Hilmar Lapp]

They distribute consensus seqs as well. Also, you can map the member 
ESTs. I haven't seem them distributing the results of that mapping, 
but I may have overlooked it. Couldn't you map seqs yourself?

	-hilmar

On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 07:27 PM, Andrew Macgregor wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Please excuse this if it is a bit off topic. I am using the Unigene 
> module to parse the downloadable unigene files from NCBI. If I 
> visit the mouse map viewer at NCBI <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-
> bin/Entrez/map_srchdb?chr=mouse_chr.inf> I can type in a unigene 
> number and it will visually display the location of the unigene.
>
> Does anyone know how they are doing this? I don't mean the actual 
> drawing of the chromosomes etc but rather how they find the 
> locations for the Unigenes. The unigene file has some location 
> information in it but it does not appear to be nearly as detailed 
> as that which would be required to do what mapviewer does ie right 
> down to basepairs.
>
> Has anyone come across a file on NIH servers that contains this 
> sort of information ie unigene ID, chromosome, start bp, stop bp...?
>
> Cheers, Andrew.
>
>
>
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