Hello UCSC people,

I extracted a list of all human alternative splicing events (assembly: 
Feb. 2009 (GRCh37/hg19), track: Alt Events) and searched them in all 
knownIsoforms. It seems to me that approximately 50% of the alternative 
3' splice site events (indicated by "altThreePrime") as well as of the 
alternative 5' splice site events (indicated by "altFivePrime") are 
wrongly annotated (real alt. 3' splice site events are indicated as alt. 
5' splice site events and the other way around). An example out of many 
is the following:

585    chr1    18362    18379    altThreePrime    0    -

If you search for this alternative splice site in the genome browser or 
the list of knownIsoforms, you find an alternative ENDING of the exon 
instead of an alternative START, which was expected according to the 
"altThreePrime" annotation. An alternative ending has always to be 
indicated as an "altFivePrime" event due to the general name convention 
since the splice site is always given relative to the intron.

Isoforms including alternative splice site 18362:

3    uc009viy.2    chr1    -    16606    29370    16606    16606    9    
16606,16857,17232,17605,17914,18267,18496,24737,29320,    
16765,17055,17368,17742,18061,18362,18554,24891,29370,
3    uc009vjf.2    chr1    -    17605    29370    17605    17605    7    
17605,17914,18267,18496,18912,24737,29320,    
17742,18061,18362,18554,19139,24891,29370,

Isoforms including alternative splice site 18379:

2    uc001aab.3    chr1    -    14362    24901    14362    14362    
10    14362,14969,15795,16606,16853,17232,17605,17914,18267,24737,    
14829,15038,15947,16765,17055,17368,17742,18061,18379,24901,
3    uc009viz.2    chr1    -    16606    29370    16606    16606    8    
16606,16853,17232,17605,17914,18267,24737,29320,    
16765,17055,17368,17742,18061,18379,24891,29370,
3    uc001aai.1    chr1    -    16857    19759    16857    16857    6    
16857,17232,17605,17914,18267,18912,    
17055,17368,17742,18061,18379,19759,
3    uc009vjb.1    chr1    -    16857    29961    16857    16857    7    
16857,17232,17605,17914,18267,24737,29823,    
17055,17368,17742,18061,18379,24891,29961,

Thanks for your help and best regards,
Anke.


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