[Genome] How to get gene symbols?

[Pauline Fujita]

Hello Hunter

We generally encourage users to consider direct downloads - available at:
   
    http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html

or our Table Browser:

    http://www.genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables

as better alternatives to DAS. Please also see our message at 
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das.

In particular, the Table Browser would be the easiest way to retrieve 
the gene symbols you are interested in. To retrieve the gene symbols for 
hg16 select:

    clade: Vertebrate
    genome: Human
    assembly: July 2003
    group: Genes and Gene Prediction Tracks
    track: Known Genes    
    database: hg16
    table: kgXref


If you only want the gene names select:

    output format: all fields from selected table

However, if you would like to get other information associated with the 
gene symbols you can select:

    output format: selected fields from primary and related tables

When you click on "get output" this will take you to a menu where you 
can select the fields you want to retrieve from the kgXref table. If you 
then click on "Allow Selection From Checked Tables" it will take you to 
a supplementary menu where you can select fields from these other 
related tables (i.e. accession number, protein accession etc).

Hopefully this information was helpful and answers your question. If you 
have further questions or require clarification feel free to contact the 
mailing list at genome at soe.ucsc.edu.

Regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu


hunter chung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get gene symbols from das, but I don't know how to get them.
>
> I tried to change "type" like "
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/hg16/features?segment=1:1,100000;type=knownGene",
> but I still can not get gene symbols.
> Can you give me the right URL to get gene symbols?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hunter
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