[BioC] exonmap install

[Dick Beyer]

Has anyone done the complete install of the mysql Ensembl databases that are used by the exonmap package?  The sizes of some of the database dumps at ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/ are pretty daunting.

I am using the affy mouse exon arrays and wondered if, initially at least, I could just install some smaller portion of all the recommended data in order to do a gene core analysis?  That is, could I just install, say, the files from:

ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mus_musculus/data/mysql/mus_musculus_core_43_36d

rather than of the files from current_mus_musculus?  And could I delay installing the "Multi-species data" and the "BioMart data"?  Or do the commands I would use to get a core gene list from the exon CEL files need to access all those database tables?

Thanks much,
Dick
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