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Artemis-Chado Integration Tutorial

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This Artemis-Chado Integration tutorial was presented by Robin Houston, Tim Carver and Giles Velarde at the 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe, August 2009. The most recent Artemis tutorial can be found at the Artemis Tutorial page.

This tutorial walks you through how to use the Artemis annotation editor with a Chado database.

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To run ACT use the act script:

./act -Dchado="localhost:5432/chado_pathogen?gmod" -Dibatis

From the ‘File’ menu select the option ‘Open Database and SSH File Manager’ and login. Drag and drop the Plasmodium entries from the Database Manager into the ACT selection window. Also, drag and drop the comparison files into this window, so it looks something like this (note the featureId numbers may well be different as these are the Chado feature_id):

ActSelection2seqs.gif

Click on Apply to read these entries and open up ACT. You can use the right hand scroll bar to zoom in and out. If you zoom out you can indentify the regions that match between these sequences.

Pf10 Pk6.gif

ACT can display multiple pairwise comparison. So the two P.knowlesi sequences can be compared to the P.falciparum sequence. From the ACT launch window go to the File menu and select ‘Open Database and SSH File Manager’. Drag in the sequences and comparison files (clicking on ‘more files’ to add the additional sequence and comparison).

ActSelection.gif

Zooming out you will see that Pfalciparum chromosome 10 matches to regions in Pknowlesi chromosome 7 and 9.

Pk6 Pf10 Pk8.gif

Writing Out Sequence Files

Artemis can write out EMBL and GFF files for an entry opened from the database. You can optionally flatten the gene model (i.e. gene, transcript, exon) to just a CDS feature. Also an option is given to ignore any obsolete features. For EMBL it uses mappings for conversion of the keys and qualifiers. These mappings are stored in the etc/key_mapping and etc/qualifier_mapping files.

A utility script (etc/write_db_entry) is also provided as a means of writing out multiple sequences from the database. The script takes the following options:

-h      show help
-f      [y|n] flatten the gene model, default is y
-i      [y|n] ignore obsolete features, default is y
-s      space separated list of sequences to read and write out
-o      [EMBL|GFF] output format, default is EMBL
-a      [y|n] for EMBL submission format change to n, default is y

Try running:

etc/writedb_entry -Dchado="localhost:5432/chado_pathogen?gmod" NC_004314

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