Dear all, I had written earlier about dealing with multiple entries for a particular gene in refGene for which a part of your response was:
>We simply download the RefSeq mRNAs and align > them to the genome using BLAT. In some cases there are gene > families that have several isoforms. That may be what you > are seeing. In the Ref Gene track, we do NOT make at attempt to > filter any of the annotations by choosing the "best" one, or > a "representative" isoform. My question is: With respect to gene families that have several isoforms, will the second field in the ref Gene table, titled ³name² be a unique identifier (It is usually of the form NM_12334) ? As in lets say some gene XYZ has two isoforms, is it always true that the ³name² field will be different for these two isoforms? Thanks in advance, Prashanth _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
