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Hello,

I'm looking for gff and/or gtf files for lung and prostrate cancer cell lines. Not able to find them on SRA, CCLE etc. Any help would be appreciated.

rna-seq cancer

Maybe you can describe a bit more about exactly what you're looking for. GTF and GFF files are annotations that one typically gets from Ensembl or Gencode. They're specific to a species in general.

well im looking for basically a 'reference' genome for prostrate cancer cell line.

Assuming human cell lines, the reference is hg19.

And it's 'prostate', not 'prostrate.'

oops! my bad. dont know how that r sneaked in there. blame that one on lack of sleep. need to spend more time prostrate! and i dont think just hg19 would help in this case as the cell line itself could cause changes not normally observed in a regular hg19 reference.

You might have to prostrate yourself before someone who has published an RNAseq dataset on this prostate cell line and ask if they happen to have generated a GTF file of anything novel. Most of what one would find would just be from the normal human annotation.

indeed! :) currently trying other resources like CCLE etc but seem to have exhausted them all.

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From your comments above and the fact that you are looking for a GTF file, it seems that you are looking for a reference transcriptome. However, with the relatively new adoption of two-pass alignment, I'd argue that you most likely will not need such a GTF file. Just run STAR (or another aligner) using one of several two-pass approaches. This gives you a first-pass "discovery" phase followed by a second-pass "evidence" phase. This seems a very effective approach for discovering and quantifying new transcripts.

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