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Exercises for UCSC Advanced Topics:
Table Browser and Custom Tracks
1) Obtain a list of SNPs in a single gene (Clock) using the Table Browser.
Skills: basic table search menus and options; choosing format; downloading sequence
2) Find CpG islands in known genes on the last part of chromosome 22 of the human
genome. Obtain this sequence as one FASTA record per region.
Skills: basic table search menus and options; intersecting tables, choosing format, downloading
sequence
3) From a list of UCSC genes, add gene symbols and GO IDs for additional information
about the gene set. Bonus step: add GO terms.
Skills: basic table search menus and options; using tables, choosing related tables and selected fields
UCSC Advanced Topics Exercises, version 15b.
Correspond to the data available in October 2008.
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