[Genome] Is the bovine genome refseq in UCSC genome browser up-to-date?

[Ann Zweig]

Hello Wen,

	We do keep up-to-date with RefSeq Genes; we download and display new 
data from NCBI every night.  The latest cow assembly (bosTau3: Aug. 
2006), has just over 10,000 genes.  This is true on our website (in the 
RefSeq Gene track) as well as on the NCBI website.

	I'm not sure where you are seeing the count of 30,000.  You may want to 
visit the Human Genome Sequencing Center Bos taurus website:
http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/bovine/ for more information.

Regards,

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Ann Zweig
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu




Wen Huang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am just curious that the Refseq Genes Track of the Table browser of  
> cow genome has only 10,452 genes. Do you keep up with the NCBI refseq  
> database? Because EntrezGene (not refseq though, I don't find  
> information about refseq count) has close to 30,000 genes. I  
> understand that the annotation of bovine genome is far from complete.  
> I just don't know when people do genomic analysis, do they actually  
> use only these 10,000 genes?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wen
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