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Exon + Intron Sequence - (Feb/06/2008 )

Hi
I am afraid my question is a bit stupid.
I want to get the sequence of my human gene containing exons + introns. I perfectly get the mRNA or coding sequence of my gene, also the complete chromosome its on - but what I need is something between- the sequence starting with exon 1 - containing all the exons & introns - ending with the last exon.
Can somebody recommend me a database please ?
pET

-pET-

you can use the Genome Browser at UCSC for this (http://genome.ucsc.edu/), just BLAT your cDNA sequence, the program will align this to the genome (click details for the complete sequence of the genomic sequence with the exons highlighted), for a graphical overview, click browser and subsequently click DNA (menu bar on top), then you get the DNA sequence currently displayed graphically in the browser

-dpo-

Best tool is AFAIK Ensembl, you search for your gene, choose a transcript and then it's Exon view, you will see all the exons and intron sequences between them (use a checkbox for a full intronic sequence).

-Trof-

Thank you dpo and Trof for your answers, that was the information I was looking for.
My new question: Trof, is it possible to export the intron sequences from Ensembl e.g. in FASTA format ? (I could not)
pET

-pET-

Not that I know of. I just copy them into the text file, it's very close to FASTA and can be used for most applications same way.

-Trof-

Yes you can. It is possible via the front end AND the backend SQL database.

-perlmunky-