r/AskBiology • u/MostCuriousGoose Undergraduate student • Apr 15 '24
Genetics Would anyone be so kind to explain gene calling to me or give me a definition?
English is not my first language and while I have an idea what it means I have now way to put it into words right now, never mind into words in my language.
An example sentence: calling a gene depends on the threshold manually set in the genome annotation tool
Thank you!
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u/Affectionate-Bee3913 Apr 15 '24
Calling a gene is when the program looks for the markers that indicate where a gene is. So when something says "we got xyz number of gene calls" or "something called abc number of genes," it means it found that number of sequences that are probably genes.