GASS: genome structural annotation for Eukaryotes based on species similarity

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Summary of the three rhesus annotation

Items	Genes	Transcripts	Isoforms ¹	Exons ²	Splicing–junctions ²	Nucleotide bases ³
GASS	22,416	60,730	48,882	210,495	158,756	95,339,302
RefSeq-rheMac3	6,274	6,360	156	45,540	39,230	114,849,69
Ensembl-rheMac2	28,595	42,820	22,156	239,754	200,748	70,038,189

¹Isoforms: if a gene has more than one transcript, we called these transcripts isoforms.
²If several exons/splicing junctions share identical splice donor and acceptor sites, we count the exons/splicing junctions only once.
³The nucleotide bases are the union of the isoforms.

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