[ensembl-dev] Biomart scerevisiae_paralog_paralogy_confidence attribute missing?

Greg Slodkowicz gregs at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Jun 5 10:14:29 BST 2018


Hi Matthieu,
I see -- thanks for clarifying this!

Best,
Greg

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:51 PM Matthieu Muffato <muffato at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Greg
>
> Indeed we don't compute the "high-confidence" flag on paralogues. Of
> what we do for orthologues, only the threshold on the percentage of
> sequence identity / coverage could apply to paralogues, but we haven't
> looked at identifying sensible thresholds.
>
> Matthieu
>
> On 01/06/18 15:42, Greg Slodkowicz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've been using the biomaRt R package to obtain paralogs for yeast and
> > noticed that I'm getting the value of NA for
> > the scerevisiae_paralog_paralogy_confidence attribute in all cases. I
> > was wondering why that is and if there's any way to identify the more
> > reliable paralog predictions?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Greg
> >
>
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