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[Carson Holt]

Hi Madolyn,

They are different genes because their ID’s are different. The numbers are meaningless, they are just iterators to make sure the ID’s are unique.

Thanks,
Carson




> From: Madolyn Macdonald <mmacd at udel.edu>
> Subject: Question about Maker output
> Date: March 22, 2016 at 10:33:42 AM MDT
> To: maker-devel at yandell-lab.org
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My apologies if this has been described elsewhere, but I have not been able to find the answer to this question.
> 
> After running fasta_merge on the Maker results, I get the fasta files which include all the gene annotations from all the different contigs in the assembly. In the transcript file, I get headers such as the two below:
> 
> maker-Contig206-snap-gene-3.11-mRNA-1
> 
> maker-Contig206-snap-gene-3.12-mRNA-1
> 
> I was wondering what the gene-X.XX portion of the header means, for instance are 3.11 and 3.12 exons on the same gene or are they two completely separate genes? If they are separate genes, what makes them still be both "gene 3"?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Madolyn Stinner (formerly Madolyn MacDonald)
> UDel Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, PhD student
> RIT Alumnus 13'

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