[ensembl-dev] hg19 - GRCh37

[Nick Fankhauser]

Hi!

thanks for your reply! Yes, it helps!

Yours,
Nick

On 22/02/12 16:03, Amonida Zadissa wrote:
> 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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