I'm a complete beginner at using Galaxy, and was hoping that someone could help me find the right tool(s) to find out how many gene locations are contained in a dataset I have.
(Some truth in advertising up front: I'm asking because I'm taking an online course on Galaxy, and this question is from a quiz I recently completed. I got the question wrong, and although I know the right answer now, I don't know how to get the right answer. I'd ask my fellow course participants/instructors, but there is no way to do so without the answer being visible to all students, many of whom have not yet taken the quiz.)
The dataset I have is a list of ~1700 transcripts from a human X chromosome. I'm trying to find out how many gene locations are contained within those transcripts. I downloaded the UCSC data for the hg19 X chromosome. And I've tried a variety of combinations of attempts using the Group/Join/Intersect tools, but I don't come anywhere near the right number.
Can anyone help me identify the right set of tools to determine, when given a set transcripts from a known organism/location, how many known genes are contained within that dataset?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Intersect is probably the correct tool ... but for more details we need more about your file formats or which informations do you have for your datasets.