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gene_biotype and transcript_biotype #2

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It is not exactly and issue but a suggestion.

As genes can have different transcripts and those transcripts could be of 
different biotype (ie: a protein_coding transcript and a 
nonsense_mediated_decay transcript belonging to the same gene), I would suggest 
to add a method like transcript_type to differentiate between gene_type and 
transcript_type. In this case the gene would be a protein_coding but it will 
contain a protein_coding transcript and a nonsense_mediated_dacay transcript.

Cheers,
Carlos

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ctorr...@googlemail.com on 16 Nov 2012 at 11:28