id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 1153 Handling short read transcript sequence data base Nicklas Nordborg "This may not be a ""core"" issue, it might be achieved with core or contributed plugins alone. As with most new technologies some core changes might be needed though. Bob MacCallum wrote in http://www.mail-archive.com/basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01559.html {{{ I'm just thinking out loud about how to incorporate high throughput transcriptome sequencing data into BASE. It's some way off, but I'm assuming that it will be cheap and quantitative enough to replace arrays at some point during the renewal period of our project (2009-2014). 1. Create an ""array design"" with all genes of interest (ideally this would be the largest set possible, e.g. known genes + predicted genes of all qualities, perhaps even predicted genes from the new sequence data). The layout would be fictitious, of course (what's the minimum one can get away with?). 2. Create a rawbioassay to correspond to each sequencing run. Then *one* of 3a/b/c for each sequencing run/rawbioassay: 3a. Outside BASE, align the new sequences to genome or transcript sequences and calculate ""intensities"" for each gene on the ""array design"" and dump into a tab delimited raw data file. Attach that file to the rawbioassay and import numeric data as usual. 3b. Upload the text file of sequences to the raw bioassay's ""data file"". Create a BASE plugin to do the the alignment and quantification as in 3a, and load the numeric data into the database. 3c. Similar to 3b, but calculate the intensities at the ""create root bioassay"" step, similar to the Affymetrix RMA plugin. 4. continue with analysis as normal. biosources, samples etc can be linked to the bioassay too, of course. I guess a new raw data type (for ""Generic"" platform) would have to be created for 3a (and 3b?) but that's not difficult. Is it possible to go with 3a, but also attach the sequence file to the raw bioassay (or scan?) - something like keeping tiff files for scans? Just for documentation purposes. Any thoughts from the community or developers? }}} Jari suggested starting a ticket here." enhancement closed critical BASE 3.0 core fixed