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What's a KnownGene file?

Hello everybody,

i'm new in this website, i study bioinformatics in Chile. Well, my question is: what's a knownGene file and what's difference have with GFF/GTF file?. I know about the format file is difference, but i ask about the information that have each one.

Thanks so much for your time :D

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updated by sbwiecko • sbwiecko • written by Bairon Hernández • Bairon Hernández

I guess you are referring to knownGene file from UCSC. It will have information about gene identifiers used by UCSC and their mapping on the genome. GFF/GTF file will have similar information using HGNC gene names (in case of human gene).

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It's a kind of GenePred table concatenated with

  1. the proteinID from UniProt or RefSeq, and
  2. the alignID from GENCODE.
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written by sbwiecko • sbwiecko

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