Thanks for your reply!
Dear Everyone,
I am just wondering if we have any available tool to automatically confirm that a predicted gene model is correct or not based on RNA-Seq data? The only way to examine a gene model that I know is to visually compare the gene model and the RNA-read coverage on GBrowse. However, this method is time-consuming. If I have thousands of proteins which are candidates to be selected for further cloning, expression and biochemically characterization steps, and I have RNA-Seq read data of the genes encoding these proteins, could you please tell me how I can quickly know which proteins have correct gene models? Any ideas from you will be much highly appreciated.
Kindly regards,
Minh Nguyen
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What kind of information (of the predicted models) that you have currently: genomic coordinates, protein sequence, or? Honestly I don't really get your point on what to confirm by RNA-seq, protein or gene model? It's a bit of a more complex task (it's another story), since protein levels are not necessarily correlating with (supposedly corresponding) RNA levels.
Thank you for your reply! I have protein and CDs sequences. I need to check if the corresponding predicted gene models of these protein/CDs sequences are correct or not. The RNA-Seq read data is used to check the gene models.
Use a BLASTP program, then TBLASTX to confirm with your RNAsequences.
Thanks for your suggestion!