Description

The RefSeq mRNAs gene track for the 01 Feb 2026 Serranus scriba/GCA_977118025.1_fSerScr1.1 genome assembly displays translated blat alignments of vertebrate and invertebrate mRNA in GenBank.

Data Access

Download GCA_977118025.1_fSerScr1.1.xenoRefGene.gtf.gz GTF file.

Track statistics summary

Total genome size: 924,817,704
Gene count: 15,396
Bases in genes: 267,974,188
Percent genome coverage: % 28.976

Methods

The mRNAs were aligned against the Serranus scriba/GCA_977118025.1_fSerScr1.1 genome using translated blat. When a single mRNA aligned in multiple places, the alignment having the highest base identity was found. Only those alignments having a base identity level within 1% of the best and at least 25% base identity with the genomic sequence were kept.

Specifically, the translated blat command is:

blat -noHead -q=rnax -t=dnax -mask=lower target.fa query.fa target.query.psl

where target.fa is one of the chromosome sequence of the genome assembly,
and the query.fa is the mRNAs from RefSeq
The resulting PSL outputs are filtered:
pslCDnaFilter -minId=0.35 -minCover=0.25  -globalNearBest=0.0100 -minQSize=20 
  -ignoreIntrons -repsAsMatch -ignoreNs -bestOverlap 
    all.results.psl GCA_977118025.1_fSerScr1.1.xenoRefGene.psl
The filtered GCA_977118025.1_fSerScr1.1.xenoRefGene.psl is converted to genePred data to display for this track.

Credits

The mRNA track was produced at UCSC from mRNA sequence data submitted to the international public sequence databases by scientists worldwide.

References

Benson DA, Cavanaugh M, Clark K, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Sayers EW. GenBank. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D36-42. PMID: 23193287; PMC: PMC3531190

Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Wheeler DL. GenBank: update. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D23-6. PMID: 14681350; PMC: PMC308779

Kent WJ. BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool. Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64. PMID: 11932250; PMC: PMC187518