[maker-devel] exon names in gff file

[Carson Holt]

It’s just an iterator to ensure the ID attribute is unique for proper parent/child feature reconstruction. It’s required on the computation side and is meaningless biologically.

—Carson


> On Apr 3, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Qihua Liang <qlian003 at ucr.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Maker development team,
> 
> I find in the gff file of exon annotation, it looks like:
> ctg631  maker   exon    16239   16243   .       -       .       ID=pInfestans_00016306-RA:exon:96;Parent=pInfestans_00016306-RA;
> 
> I am wondering what does “96” mean in ID=pInfestans_00016306-RA:exon:96, it does not look like the exon numbering because not all transcripts have an exon starts from 0. 
> 
> Thank you
> Qihua
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