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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
To add to rightskewed answer:
While it is true that:
Gencode is an additive set of annotation (the manual one done by Havana and an automated one done by Ensembl),
the annotation (GTF) files are quite ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
Ensembl vs Gencode
https://www.gencodegenes.org/faq.html
The GENCODE annotation is made by merging the Havana manual gene annotation and the Ensembl automated gene annotation. [...] In practical ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
To add practical advice to what others have said:
In a practical sense, I think the biggest difference between RefSeq and Ensembl/GENCODE is in the sensitivity/specificity trade off.
Ensembl aims ...
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How can I calculate gene_length for RPKM calculation from counts data?
Here you can find some example R code to compute the gene length given a GTF file (it computes GC content too, which you don't need). This uses one of a number of ways of computing gene length, in ...
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Differences between Gencode GTF and Ensembl GTF files
Let me answer around your questions a bit freely:
Gene Versions: I always gsub them away when using GENCODE since the actual version control happens by using a fixed and reproducible GENCODE release. ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
The UCSC Genome Browser Genes FAQ discusses this question in detail:
https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQgenes.html#ens
Officially, the Ensembl and GENCODE gene models are the same. On the
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Gencode PolyA feature annotation GTF gene_id not the same as Comprehensive gene annotation GTF
According to the GENCODE ftp README file, the value of the 'gene_id', 'transcript_id', 'gene_name' and 'transcript name' fields corresponds to a random identifier. The polyA features are not directly ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
Note that the pDot of a certain mutation might differ based on which transcript you are using, and so Ensembl and RefSeq cannot be used interchangeably.
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Why are my genes filtered for Gene Ontology term enrichment?
What is "click here for details" saying? That link should contain an explanation of what happened.
GSEA usually requires entrez_id to run. If your list contains <...
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Dealing with indels when converting a position to chromStart and chromEnd for a bed file
You can convert to VCF and use BEDOPS vcf2bed --insertions, vcf2bed --deletions and ...
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How can I calculate gene_length for RPKM calculation from counts data?
I assume you are mapping against the genome rather the transcriptome, since for the later the length would be trivial.
Assuming the first, I think not only the coding sections should be included but ...
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Feature annotation: RefSeq vs Ensembl vs Gencode, what's the difference?
While annotations between RefSeq and Gencode are not so different is the coding regions (genes), Gencode is much more rich in the intergenic regions. This could be very advantagous for epigenetic ...
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