[BioC] Conservation tracks in BioC?

Marc Carlson mcarlson at fhcrc.org
Fri Sep 25 02:10:38 CEST 2009


Hi Paul,

Not really as an annotation package.  But there is an example of how you
can get data like this from the UCSC tables in rtracklayer.  Just load
up rtracklayer and then look at the help page for ucscTableQuery. 

library("rtracklayer")
?ucscTableQuery


  Marc


Paul Leo wrote:
> Would like to get some advice on the best way to access Conservation
> data from UCSC like the human-17 way conservation etc. Now I know HOW to
> get it... ftp, table browser, SQL from UCSC.....and  I was going to
> download it and put it into an Rle object for later use. I need the lot,
> not small pieces at a time..
>
> My question is is it already packaged up in R-Annotation somewhere and
> I've missed it?
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
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