That worked perfectly. Thank you, much appreciated!
Hello!
I would like to download annotated data on functional domains for the hg19 RefSeq. The information needed is the domain name and start and stop position of the functional domains for a given a NM_* or NR_ transcript id.
I have some trouble finding the information in the right format. I tried fetching data from biological_region from the RefSeq Functional Element from NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/functionalelements/#Gene_FTP).
It seems the functional domains are here coded by NC_* numbers and are not compatible with NM_* IDs.
Does anyone know how the functional domain annotations can be fetched for NM_* transcript IDs?
Thanks in advance
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You could do something like this to "translate" the NM id to NP :
$ esearch -db nuccore -query NM_015215 | elink -target protein | efetch -format ft
>Feature ref|NP_056030.1|
1 1673 Protein
product calmodulin-binding transcription activator 1 isoform a
67 183 Region
region CG-1
note CG-1 domains are highly conserved domains of about 130 amino-acid residues
db_xref CDD:198144
112 119 Region
region Nuclear localization signal. /evidence=ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00767
note propagated from UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (Q9Y6Y1.4)
283 375 Region
region Disordered. /evidence=ECO:0000256|SAM:MobiDB-lite
note propagated from UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (Q9Y6Y1.4)
873 952 Region
region TIG
note IPT/TIG domain
db_xref CDD:426462
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Are you sure you want the
NM*accessions. Those are nucleotide and are not likely to have any domain information.With
NP*accessions you will get (with EntrezDirect, example below truncated to save space)Thank you for the response!
Unfortunately, the software only reports NM and NR and not NP accessions. Could it be possible to translate the NM accessions? The goal is to map the protein positions to the functional domains.
Here is some documentation from the Ion Reporter Software:
Example data: transcript : NM_015215.2 , gene : CAMTA1, protein : p.Cys147Trp.
Documentation on the transcript value: "NM_ or NR_ NCBI versioned transcript identifiers (as specified by the gene-model files provided by UCSC RefSeq v63."