Hi Xue,

Are you referring to the following paragraph from the methods section of 
the RefSeq Genes track (from which the refMrna.fa file is from)?

"RefSeq RNAs were aligned against the human genome using blat; those 
with an alignment of less than 15% were discarded. When a single RNA 
aligned in multiple places, the alignment having the highest base 
identity was identified. Only alignments having a base identity level 
within 0.1% of the best and at least 96% base identity with the genomic 
sequence were kept."

Although only the single best alignment for each RefSeq entry is 
included in the track, RefSeq itself contains multiple entries for genes 
that have multiple known splice variants. So, the RefSeq Genes track 
does contain splice variants.

Please contact the mail list ([email protected]) again if you have any 
further questions.

Katrina Learned
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group



On 10/3/11 9:19 AM, xue lin wrote:
> Dear whom concerned,
> Thank you for last time answering the question, and I still have a little
> quesiton that I read the introduction of the refMrna.fa, there is no
> redundancy in the file. Does it mean that there is no splicing sequences in
> the mRNA refseq file?
> Thank you very much.
> All the best.
> Xue
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