[Bioperl-l] UCSC database -> GFF

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Allen Day wrote:

> yes, but there is a problem with the ucsc das server not providing all the
> information that is available in the tables.  utr info for refgenes, for
> example.
>
> also, my last understanding was that the bio::das packages were dom
> based... you needed to read the whole xml before gffifying the features.
> not so desireable with the est tracks...

I (*think*) they are SAX based...


DAS is not a good way to download full datasets however... it was never
designed for that and doesn't scale well.