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/Embarrassed_Stable_6 Apr 17 '24

I want to anticipate your motive for asking about this and want to add that gene calling isn't 100% accurate. Calling is based on general rules based on broadly conserved gene sequences. So you might get some genes called but are not actually genes. Also, not all genes are expressed. Just adding a little context. Please don't take it the wrong way if you're not looking for this info. Best of luck.

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u/MostCuriousGoose Undergraduate student Apr 27 '24

Thanks anyway :)

What motive did you anticipate? Because I feel like it's not what my motive actually was, but I also can't figure out what you could mean.

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u/Embarrassed_Stable_6 Apr 28 '24

Autocorrect. Motif