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Looking for Exon Start Site for All Annotated Genes

So I have recently joined a new lab and my first project is to locate and generate heat maps of exon-intron junctions. I am using the UCSC Genome Browser to find a exon start site for all annotate genes.

Needless to say I'm pretty lost. Was hoping someone could guide me through the process.

Thank you in advance!

chip-seq

1 answer

Go to the UCSC table browser, then select the relevant genome/assembly/group/track based on your model organism, set your output format to BED and click get output, the next window should allow you to create a single BED record per coding exon

Can I annotate peaks using the bed file?

Sure, just use something like bedtools closest to annotate your peaks with the closest or overlapping coding exon.

I managed to annotate the peaks. Next I want to generate heatmaps but I require a .bdg file ... I'm not entirely sure how to create one, any ideas?

Managed to do everything just fine. But while trying to view my heatmaps in Java ViewTree I come upon this error and can't seem to find anything on it.

error parsing File: LoadException 1: Error Parsing CDT: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 203
parse cannot succeed. please fix.

I realize you might not be familiar with the software, but any ideas?

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