Schema for refGene
  Database: strPur1    Primary Table: refGene    Row Count: 934   Data last updated: 2020-09-01
Format description: A gene prediction with some additional info.
On download server: MariaDB table dump directory
fieldexampleSQL type info description
bin 585smallint(5) unsigned range Indexing field to speed chromosome range queries.
name NM_214495varchar(255) values Name of gene (usually transcript_id from GTF)
chrom Scaffold56862varchar(255) values Reference sequence chromosome or scaffold
strand -char(1) values + or - for strand
txStart 65319int(10) unsigned range Transcription start position (or end position for minus strand item)
txEnd 79866int(10) unsigned range Transcription end position (or start position for minus strand item)
cdsStart 65319int(10) unsigned range Coding region start (or end position for minus strand item)
cdsEnd 79866int(10) unsigned range Coding region end (or start position for minus strand item)
exonCount 19int(10) unsigned range Number of exons
exonStarts 65319,66452,67346,68805,696...longblob   Exon start positions (or end positions for minus strand item)
exonEnds 65472,66590,67495,69028,698...longblob   Exon end positions (or start positions for minus strand item)
score 0int(11) range score
name2 LOC373241varchar(255) values Alternate name (e.g. gene_id from GTF)
cdsStartStat cmplenum('none', 'unk', 'incmpl', 'cmpl') values Status of CDS start annotation (none, unknown, incomplete, or complete)
cdsEndStat incmplenum('none', 'unk', 'incmpl', 'cmpl') values Status of CDS end annotation (none, unknown, incomplete, or complete)
exonFrames 0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0...longblob   Reading frame of the start of the CDS region of the exon, in the direction of transcription (0,1,2), or -1 if there is no CDS region.

Connected Tables and Joining Fields
        hgFixed.gbCdnaInfo.acc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.gbMiscDiff.acc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.gbSeq.acc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.gbWarn.acc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.imageClone.acc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.refLink.mrnaAcc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.refSeqStatus.mrnaAcc (via refGene.name)
      hgFixed.refSeqSummary.mrnaAcc (via refGene.name)
      knownGeneV39.kgXref.refseq (via refGene.name)
      knownGeneV39.knownToRefSeq.value (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.all_mrna.qName (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.mrnaOrientInfo.name (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.refFlat.name (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.refSeqAli.qName (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.xenoRefGene.name (via refGene.name)
      strPur1.xenoRefSeqAli.qName (via refGene.name)

Sample Rows
 
binnamechromstrandtxStarttxEndcdsStartcdsEndexonCountexonStartsexonEndsscorename2cdsStartStatcdsEndStatexonFrames
585NM_214495Scaffold56862-653197986665319798661965319,66452,67346,68805,69648,70181,70566,71074,71824,72423,73276,73871,74658,76004,76344,77322,78040,79194,79786,65472,66590,67495,69028,69828,70283,70607,71143,71992,72552,73449,74082,74700,76118,76432,77411,78136,79291,79866,0LOC373241cmplincmpl0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,2,0,0,2,0,
585NM_214540Scaffold99795-980626310998826309239806,11704,12804,13551,14187,14928,15430,15918,16422,17395,18044,18588,19007,19969,20757,21033,21932,22560,23256,24183,24658,252 ...10129,11796,12903,13726,14256,15052,15571,16099,16575,17636,18149,18666,19191,20048,20872,21194,22070,22794,23406,24367,24781,25 ...0LOC373321cmplcmpl0,1,1,0,0,2,2,1,1,0,0,0,2,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,
585NM_214541Scaffold9194+10330107531033010753110330,10753,0H2B-1cmplcmpl0,
585NM_214542Scaffold87190+80472147459180,472,0H4cmplcmpl0,
585NM_214542Scaffold87633-2146062275391214,606,0H4cmplcmpl0,
585NM_214542Scaffold95558+542458165491580315424,5816,0H4cmplcmpl0,
585NM_214662Scaffold70162+3422334223134,223,0pkd2incmplincmpl1,
585NM_214661Scaffold1146-18456250881885124861818456,21055,21642,22425,24266,24348,24761,24911,20353,21257,21788,22620,24347,24412,24861,25088,0gcmcmplincmpl1,0,1,1,1,0,2,-1,
585NM_001083634Scaffold111348-49780512124978051212249780,51045,49815,51212,04e-bpcmplincmpl1,2,
585NM_001083634Scaffold4246+54529546725452954672154529,54672,04e-bpcmplincmpl0,

Note: all start coordinates in our database are 0-based, not 1-based. See explanation here.