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Where Can I Download Lincrna Feature Files For The Mm9 Genome Build

Does anyone know where I can get a valid mm9 gtf or gff3 lincRNA dataset? I need relationship data within these files.

So far my searching has lead me to believe that only coordinate files exist. The only feature type I have found is 'exon'

Thank you very much!

-I am one desperate dude.

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updated by JC JC • written by Zev.Kronenberg Zev.Kronenberg

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subtract the lincRNA from the Ensembl annotation: 

wget ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-68/gtf/mus_musculus/Mus_musculus.GRCm38.68.gtf.gz
zgrep lincRNA Mus_musculus.GRCm38.68.gtf.gz > lincRNA.gtf

*the last mouse assembly is mm10, I'm almost sure that Ensembl is using that annotation, if you need mm9 maybe you will need to search in previous releases.

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written by JC JC

Yes this annotation is much better! However, there are way fewer lincRNAs than I have seen in other sets.

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written by Zev.Kronenberg Zev.Kronenberg

yes, but consider that lincRNA biology is still in research. Recently I take a look of the lincRNAs printed in a human microarray, many probes were bad, some marks introns and others are alternative transcripts from a large coding gene. Be careful with annotations.

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The quality of the annotations has been bothering me since I have started looking into lincRNAs.

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