all.joiner A file that describes joinable fields in the UCSC Genome Databases

basic example of an identifier The central concept of all.joiner is the identifier, which appears in fields of multiple tables, sometimes even multiple databases. $gbd is a variable that contains a comma-separated list of genome databases. An identifier consists of a an identifier line, a required comment in quotes, and a list of database.table.field where the identifier is used. The first field listed is the master key. It contains all identifiers. Later fields may not contain all. identifier softberryGeneName "Link together Fshgene++ gene structure, peptide, and homolog" $gbd.softberryGene.name $gbd.softberryPep.name $gbd.softberryHom.name

Variables Variables are defined by the set keyword. In practice they are mostly used for comma- separated lists of databases. set fish tetraodon,fugu,zebrafish set worms elegans,briggsae After these two sets, typing $fish,$worms is equivalent to typing: tetraodon,fugu,zebrafish,elegans,briggsae

Databases by organism # Define databases used for various organisms set hg hg15,hg16,hg17,hg18 set mm mm3,mm4,mm5,mm6,mm7,mm8 set rn rn2,rn3,rn4 set fr fr1,fr2 set ce ce1,ce2,ce4 set cb cb1,cb3 set dm dm1,dm2,dm3 set dp dp2,dp3 set sc sc1 set sacCer sacCer1 set panTro panTro1,panTro2 set galGal galGal2,galGal3

# Define all genome databases. set gbd $hg,$mm,$rn,$fr,$ce,$cb,$dm,$dp,$sc,$sacCer,$panTro,$galGal # Only consider one of members of gbd at a time. exclusiveSet $gbd # Define other databases that we check set otherDb visiGene,uniProt,go,proteome,hgFixed … # Set up list of databases we ignore and those we check. Program # will complain about other databases. databasesChecked $gbd,$otherDb databasesIgnored mysql,lost+found,$proteinDb,$zooDb,hgcentraltest,hgcentralbeta

# Define databases that support known genes set kgDb $hg,$mm,$rn # Define databases that support Gene Sorter # (which once was the gene family browser) set familyDb $hg,$mm,$ce,$sacCer,$dm

# Magic for tables split between chromosomes set split splitPrefix=chr%_ # Stuff to link together self chains and nets identifier chainSelf "Link together self chain info" $gbd.chainSelf.id $split $gbd.chainSelfLink.chainId $split $gbd.netSelf.chainId exclude=0 The splitPrefix= allows logical tables to be split. The % acts as a wildcard (SQL style). The exclude=0 says that the master key need not include 0. Chains and nets are more complex than other identifiers

set chainDest Hg15,Hg16,Hg17,Mm4,Mm5,Mm6… identifier chain[${chainDest}]Id "Link together chain info" $gbd.chain[].id $split $gbd.chain[]Link.chainId $split $gbd.net[].chainId $gbd.allChain[].id $gbd.netRxBest[].chainId exclude=0 $gbd.net[]NonGap.chainId exclude=0 $gbd.netSynteny[].chainId exclude=0 Other chains and nets use a macro expansion of sorts so we don’t need to define a separate identifier for each one.

# Genbank/trEMBL Accessions and meaningful subsets thereof identifier genbankAccession external=genbank "Generic Genbank Accession. More specific Genbank accessions follow" $gbd.seq.acc identifier stsAccession external=genbank typeOf=genbankAccession "Genbank accession of a Sequence Tag Site (STS) sequence." $gbd.stsInfo2.genbank dupeOk identifier bacEndAccession typeOf=genbankAccession "Genbank accession of a BAC end read." $gbd.all_bacends.qName dupeOk $gbd.bacEndPairs.lfNames comma $hg.fishClones.beNames comma minCheck=0.70 The typeOf line allows joins between parent and child, but not between siblings.

identifier hugoName external=HUGO fuzzy "International Human Gene Identifier" $hg.refLink.name $hg.atlasOncoGene.locusSymbol $hg.kgAlias.alias $hg.kgXref.geneSymbol $hg.refFlat.geneName $hg.jaxOrtholog.humanSymbol hg13,hg15.geneBands.name “Biological” names for human genes are so messy, no validation is done (note ‘fuzzy’ keyword).

identifier ensemblTranscriptId external=Ensembl dependency "Ensembl Transcript ID" $gbd.ensGene.name chopAfter=. $gbd.superfamily.name $gbd.ensGeneXref.transcript_name chopAfter=. minCheck=0.20 mm3,hg13.ensemblXref.transcript_name chopAfter=. minCheck=0.20 mm3.ensemblXref2.transcript_name chopAfter=. minCheck=0.20 $gbd.ensGtp.transcript chopAfter=. minCheck=0.98 $gbd.ensPep.name chopAfter=. minCheck=0.98 $gbd.ensTranscript.transcript_name chopAfter=. minCheck=0.20 $kgDb.knownToEnsembl.value chopAfter=. $gbd.sfDescription.name chopAfter=. mm3.superfamily.name chopAfter=. Ensembl isn’t ‘fuzzy’ but requires relaxed ‘minCheck’

# Table types - describe tables sharing a common format. type genePred $hg.acembly $gbd.ECgene $gbd.geneid $gbd.genscan $gbd.sgpGene $gbd.softberryGene $gbd.twinscan $gbd.ensGene $gbd.vegaGene $gbd.refGene $gbd.jgiFilteredModels Table browser looks for genePred.as file based on this, and fills in descriptions in ‘describe schema’.

# Dependencies not already captured in identifiers. # The joinerCheck program can quickly check times and # dependencies sort of like make. dependency $mm.affyGnfU74ADistance $mm.knownToU74 hgFixed.gnfMouseU74aMedianRatio dependency $mm.affyGnfU74BDistance $mm.knownToU74 hgFixed.gnfMouseU74bMedianRatio dependency $mm.affyGnfU74CDistance $mm.knownToU74 hgFixed.gnfMouseU74cMedianRatio dependency $hg.gnfU95Distance $hg.knownToU95 hgFixed.gnfHumanU95MedianRatio dependency $ce.kimExpDistance hgFixed.kimWormLifeMedianRatio dependency $dm.arbExpDistance $dm.bdgpToCanonical hgFixed.arbFlyLifeMedianRatio dependency $sacCer.choExpDistance hgFixed.yeastChoCellCycle

# Ignored tables - no linkage here that we check at least. tablesIgnored go instance_data source_audit tablesIgnored $gbd ancientRepeat axtInfo chromInfo cpgIsland … trackDb% chr%_mrna joinerCheck squawks about any table (or database) not mentioned

joinerCheck Checks database vs. all.joiner in various ways. Very handy for QA but… –Full joinerCheck takes a long long time to run –Output is verbose because it complains about missing stuff –The -times check is fast, but sometimes we make tables out of order without it being a true error.

joinerCheck - Parse and check joiner file usage: joinerCheck file.joiner options: -identifier=name - Just validate given identifier. -database=name - Just validate given database. -fields - Check fields in joiner file exist, faster with -fieldListIn -fieldListOut=file - List all fields in all databases to file. -fieldListIn=file - Get list of fields from file rather than mysql. -keys - Validate (foreign) keys. Takes at least an hour. -tableCoverage - Check that all tables are mentioned in joiner file -dbCoverage - Check that all databases are mentioned in joiner file -times - Check update times of tables are after tables they depend on -all - Do all tests: -fields -keys -tableCoverage -dbCoverage -times joinerCheck - the tool you’ll love to hate!

all.joiner in summary With.as files describes our large, messy, useful database. Missing info in all.joiner results in missing functionality in table browser. QA can automatically catch many problems with joinerCheck Full path - src/hg/makeDb/schema/all.joiner See also src/hg/makeDb/schema/joiner.doc