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Hello.
A colleague of mine is working on chromosomal data divided into 1Mb segments. Unfortunately the software she's using (STAC) does not contain cytoband information for each chromosome. The question I'm asking is, is there a way to determine human cytoband lengths and positions without using a (long) manual procedure (so I could map those regions to each cytoband)? For reference, the data are in a text file, and I have access to either bash shell scripting, perl or R should these be required.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Joe Gregorio has a rant on the notion of 'document centric', attempting to answer the question: why do people put data in spreadsheets that should be in relational databases ? What struck me after reading this was the obvious parallels in biology and bioinformatics. I mean, how many times have you seen biologists (for want of a better term) carefully collecting data in a spreadsheet that rightly should have been put in a relational database ? Is it that we are trained to think in terms of documents (papers) ? Is this why online scientific publishing is so difficult to grasp for most traditional academics ? Read on for bonus points...