[ensembl-dev] hg19 - GRCh37

[Amonida Zadissa]

Hi Nick,

Ensembl uses the official assembly name for human which is GRCh37.
UCSC use a different notification for the same assembly which is hg19.
These two assemblies should be the same.

You may also be interested to know that in addition to annotating the
GRCh37 assembly, we also annotate and display GRC patches [1] for
human as part of the Ensembl release. These patches are minor releases
with assembly fixes and/or alternative loci and are released every 2-3
months. The upcoming Ensembl release e66 will contain annotation from
GRC patch 6 (GRCh37.p6).

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Amonida

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/human/

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Nick Fankhauser wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> are the coordinates in GRCh37 really identical to the hg19 coordinates?
> 
> I ask because I have iCLIP peaks mapped to hg19 and plan to find
> intersections to the positions of all known genes, which I'm retrieving
> through the ENSEMBL API.
> 
> Nick
> 
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