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biomaRt Biotype Predictions

How accurate is biomaRt's biotype prediction? I just ran a gene list through it (using ENSEMBL ID) and got a list of 'miRNAs' but GeneCards is telling me that some of them are coding genes??? Not sure what is going on, can anyone shed some light?

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I'm not sure where GeneCards get their annotation from. You'd have to check their documentation. You can see how Ensembl genes are annotated here. In particular, miRNAs are imported from miRBase.

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