[Genome] A question about conservation score

[Brooke Rhead]

Hi again Shan,

I have a small correction to make to my answer below: there are 17 
species (plus human) in the new placental mammal conservation score, not 
10.  Sorry for any confusion!

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Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group

Brooke Rhead wrote:
> Hello Shan,
> 
> There is not an easy way to calculate conservation scores from a subset 
> of species in the multiple alignment.
> 
> However, you might be interested in our new 28-way Conservation track on 
> the hg18 browser (even though it is human-based, not mouse-based). There 
> are two separate conservation scores calculated there: one for all 28 
> vertebrates in the 28-way alignment, and one for only the 10 placental 
> mammals in the alignmnent.
> 
> I hope you find this information useful.
>