Questions tagged [gencode]
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Comparing common genes and transcripts between Gencode and Refseq
This is a very naive question - I am trying to compare and get the common lncRNA genes and transcripts between Gencode and Refseq from their gff files.
Since their gene_id, gene_names are different, ...
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Gencode PolyA feature annotation GTF gene_id not the same as Comprehensive gene annotation GTF
I have downloaded the Gencode PolyA feature annotation GTF here. The first 10 lines are like this:
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Genome-guided transcriptome reconstruction: should I filter my reference annotation by transcript_support_level or other tags?
Is there really any advantage to filtering the GTF annotation for transcriptome reconstruction (or, for example, for pseudo-alignment quantification)? Are there any downsides (i.e. reasons why I ...
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Why are my genes filtered for Gene Ontology term enrichment?
When I enter a list of gene names into common gene ontology (GO) term enricher (e.g. MsigDB or ToppGene) only a small fraction of genes is actually used for the enrichment:
I am struggling to ...
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Dealing with indels when converting a position to chromStart and chromEnd for a bed file
Starting with a chromosome # and position, I am trying to get chromStart and chromEnd values for a .bed file, but I am not sure how to calculate chromEnd when I have a variant that is an insertion or ...
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How can I calculate gene_length for RPKM calculation from counts data?
I have read counts data and I want to convert them into RPKM values. For this conversion I need the gene length.
Does the gene length need to be calculated based on the sum of coding exonic lengths? ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
What are the actual differences between different annotation databases?
My lab, for reasons still unknown to me, prefers Ensembl annotations (we're working with transcript/exon expression estimation)...
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