KnownGenesToBed

converts UCSC knownGenes file to BED.

Usage

This program is now part of the main jvarkit tool. See jvarkit for compiling.

Usage: java -jar dist/jvarkit.jar kg2bed  [options] Files

Usage: kg2bed [options] Files
  Options:
    --exclude, --hide
      don't show the following items (comma separated, one of 
      'INTRON,UTR,CDS,EXON,TRANSCRIPT,NON_CODING,CODING'). Empty don't hide 
      anything 
      Default: <empty string>
    -h, --help
      print help and exit
    --helpFormat
      What kind of help. One of [usage,markdown,xml].
    -o, --output
      Output file. Optional . Default: stdout
    -s, --select
      JEXL select expression. Object 'kg' is an instance of KnownGene (https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/blob/master/src/main/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/util/ucsc/KnownGene.java).JEXL 
      stands for Java EXpression Language.  See 
      https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jexl/reference/syntax.html 
      Default: <empty string>
    -sql, --sql
      SQL Schema URI. Each instance of transcript can be associated to a .sql 
      schema to help the software to decode the semantics of the columns. Eg.: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/database/wgEncodeGencodeBasicV20.sql
      Default: <empty string>
    --version
      print version and exit

Keywords

• ucsc
• bed
• knownGenes

See also in Biostars

• https://www.biostars.org/p/151628
• https://www.biostars.org/p/9557497

Creation Date

20140311

Source code

https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/tree/master/src/main/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/tools/kg2bed/KnownGenesToBed.java

Unit Tests

https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/tree/master/src/test/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/tools/kg2bed/KnownGenesToBedTest.java

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: http://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/issues
• Source Code: http://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.

Citing

Should you cite kg2bed ? https://github.com/mr-c/shouldacite/blob/master/should-I-cite-this-software.md

The current reference is:

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

Lindenbaum, Pierre (2015): JVarkit: java-based utilities for Bioinformatics. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1425030

See also

ucsc tools : genePredToBed

Example

$ curl -s "http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/knownGene.txt.gz" |\
  gunzip -c |\
  java -jar dist/jvarkit.jar kg2bed
chr1    11873   14409   +   uc001aaa.3  TRANSCRIPT  uc001aaa.3
chr1    11873   12227   +   uc001aaa.3  EXON    Exon 1
chr1    12227   12612   +   uc001aaa.3  INTRON  Intron 1
chr1    11873   12227   +   uc001aaa.3  UTR UTR3
chr1    12612   12721   +   uc001aaa.3  EXON    Exon 2
chr1    12721   13220   +   uc001aaa.3  INTRON  Intron 2
chr1    12612   12721   +   uc001aaa.3  UTR UTR3
chr1    13220   14409   +   uc001aaa.3  EXON    Exon 3
chr1    13220   14409   +   uc001aaa.3  UTR UTR3
chr1    11873   14409   +   uc010nxr.1  TRANSCRIPT  uc010nxr.1
chr1    11873   12227   +   uc010nxr.1  EXON    Exon 1
chr1    12227   12645   +   uc010nxr.1  INTRON  Intron 1
chr1    11873   12227   +   uc010nxr.1  UTR UTR3
chr1    12645   12697   +   uc010nxr.1  EXON    Exon 2
chr1    12697   13220   +   uc010nxr.1  INTRON  Intron 2