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. 2020 Oct 14;18:2836–2850. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.10.010

Table 1.

Definition of categories of proteins in the custom database.

Name Full name Description Source
Canonical Canonical protein Protein annotated in current annotations UniProtKB, Ensembl and/or NCBI RefSeq
AltProt Alternative protein Protein currently not annotated with no significant homology with the canonical protein of the same gene OpenProt
Novel isoform Novel protein isoform Protein currently not annotated with a significant homology with the canonical protein of the same gene OpenProt
Cuff-Prot Cuff-transcript derived protein Predicted protein from an ORF within a novel splice variant transcript detected by RNA-seq In silico translation