[Genome] Query about Genbank Accession to RefSeq Ids

[Brooke Rhead]

Hello Lalitha,

RefSeq IDs are a type of Genbank accession numbers, as I understand it. 
  According to the NCBI Handbook, here: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=handbook.section.GenBank_ASM

"In some cases, creation of a RefSeq record involves no more than 
selecting a single good example from GenBank and making a copy in 
RefSeq, which credits the GenBank record. In other cases, NCBI in-house 
staff generates and annotates the records based on the existing primary 
data, sometimes by combining parts of several GenBank records."

I'm not sure if this answers your question.  Please write back to this 
list with further questions, and we can try to clarify the way we store 
data in our tables.

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group



Viswanath, Lalitha (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote:
> Hi
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> Does UCSC provide an exhaustive mapping of all available RefSeq Ids to
> Genbank accession numbers?
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> The documentation for the Known Genes Cross Reference table shows Mrna
> Id as a separate column from RefSeq ID.
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> The data seems to indicate that mRNA id is of the same format as a
> Genbank accession number. Is it correct to assume that the Mrna Id is
> analogous to Genbank accession number?
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