This HOWTO describes a method for loading the sequence data in Genbank RefSeq files into the Chado database.
These steps have been used to load data from genomic RefSeq files. You
can recognize these files by their NC_ and NT_ prefixes. First
download the Genbank genome files of interest. A good source for RefSeq
files is NCBI’s FTP site. This website provides some files in
GFF3 format (suffix .gff). Files in the Genbank format have the suffix
.gbk.
Use the BioPerl script genbank2gff3.pl, found in
scripts/Bio-DB-GFF/ within the BioPerl distribution. If you’ve
actually installed BioPerl then the installed script will have been
renamed bp_genbank2gff3.pl. Note that there’s also an older
genbank2gff.pl script, don’t use it.
>bp_genbank2gff3.pl <filename>
This will create a GFF3 file. It may give several warnings about unrecognized feature types. If the feature types are not part of SOFA, you will have to hand edit the resulting GFF3 file to change the feature type. Any skipped features will be printed at the end. If you want those to be part of the GFF3 file, you will have to add those manually as well, fixing any non-SOFA feature types.
You will need to have an entry for your species in the Chado organism table. If you are unsure if this entry exists log into your database and execute this SQL command:
SELECT genus,species,common_name FROM organism;
If you do not see your organism listed, execute a command equivalent to this:
INSERT INTO organism (abbreviation, genus, species, common_name)
VALUES ('H.sapiens', 'Homo', 'sapiens', 'Human');
Substitute in the appropriate values for your own organism.
Run the load/bin/gmod_bulk_load_gff3.pl script from the GMOD
distribution:
>gmod_bulk_load_gff3.pl --gfffile <your gfffile>
If you didn’t specify this organism when installing Chado, (in response
to the question “What is the default organism (common name, or
“none”)”), then you’ll need to add at least the
--organism <common_name> flag to the command. See
perldoc gmod_bulk_load_gff3.pl for an explanation of the other options
this script supports.
This will load your data into the Chado database. Note that if there are non-SOFA feature types remaining in the GFF3 file the load will fail when they are encountered. If that happens, edit the file to fix the incorrect term and load again. If that happens, the load will be stopped before the database is touched, so you won’t have to worry about duplicate data.
Please send questions to the GMOD developers list:
gmod-devel@lists.sourceforge.net