Hi Pietro, The start of the gene means the start of the first exon of any of the transcripts for that gene, the end means the last exon of all the transcript that belong to that gene. The coordinates do not change for -1 strand.
(i am cc'ing the users mailing list in case i got it wrong You can get more detailed information from [email protected]) a On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Pietro Palladino <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I'm a researcher from University of Perugia, I have a question about data > downloaded from Biomart and, unfortunately, I did not find the answer on > the documentation of the site. > When I download genome data of an organism I can check attributes as Gene > start (bp), Gene end (bp) and Strand. What "start" and "end" of a gene are > exactly in biomart database? Does their meaning change if the strand is > -1? > Thanks for your help, > > Best regards. > > -- > Pietro. > > > -- Arek Kasprzyk, MD, MSc, PhD BioMart Project Lead www.biomart.org
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