Table 1.
Definition of categories of proteins in the custom database.
Name | Full name | Description | Source |
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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 |