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Ucsc Tables : What Is The Difference Between Refgene And Xenorefgene Tables ?

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12.8 years ago

Radhouane Aniba ▴ 790

Hi All,

Both of these two tables have the same structure ( chimp, PanTro3) BUT one have much more data than the other, why ? and what is the difference between the two of them.

Rad

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 12.7 years ago by brentp 24k • written 12.8 years ago by Radhouane Aniba ▴ 790

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@Rahouane: you've already asked more than 20 questions on this site but you didn't bother to validate most of the people's answers. Please, take a few minutes to validate the answers, thanks.

ADD REPLY • link 12.8 years ago by Pierre Lindenbaum 161k

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@Rahouane: I concur with Pierre, since @brentp's answer below is correct, here is a perfect opportunity to validate and choose this repsonse.

ADD REPLY • link 12.8 years ago by Casey Bergman 18k

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Thank you for your answers, Answers validated

ADD REPLY • link 12.8 years ago by Radhouane Aniba ▴ 790

score 3 · Answer 1 · 2011-07-11

xenoRefGene description says: This track shows known protein-coding genes from organisms other than [your organism], taken from the NCBI mRNA reference sequences collection (RefSeq).

Whereas refGene contains only genes from [your organism].

You can find this by clicking the "Describe Table Schema" button on the UCSC tables page.

There is more information about refSeq here.