Figure 2.

Merging transcript assemblies using StringTie’s merge function. In this example, four partial assemblies from four different samples are merged into two transcripts A and B. Samples 1 and 2 are both consistent with the reference annotation, which is used here to merge and extend them to create transcript A. Samples 3 and 4 are consistent with each other but not with the annotation, and these are merged to create transcript B.