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How to assign gene names to ensembl IDs if species not in Biomart

Hello,

I would like to align my data to bGalGal1.pat.whiteleghornlayer.GRCg7w. I found the link on ensembl so I already made my index for kallisto.

After mapping I normally use biomart to assign gene names to the Ensembl IDs. However, I don't think that this species is in biomart. When I do searchDatasets(mart = ensembl, pattern = "gallus") I only find the bGalGal1.mat.broiler.GRCg7b version in biomart. Is there any other way I should look for it in biomart?

Otherwise how can I assign gene names to the Ensembl IDs? Would using the gtf file from Ensembl work for that?

Thank you

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1 answer

Genomax is exactly right. Just for further context, the annotation for bGalGal1.mat.broiler.GRCg7b is the only chicken annotation available in Ensembl BioMart.

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