THE VALUE OF PRIMARY TRANSCRIPTS TO THE CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL GENOMICS COMMUNITY: SURVEY RESULTS AND ROADMAP FOR IMPROVEMENTS. AUTHORS
- Fiona Cunningham,
- Joannella Morales,
- Aoife C Mcmahon,
- Jane Loveland,
- Emily Perry,
- Adam Frankish,
- Sarah Hunt,
- Irina M Armean,
- Paul Flicek
Fiona Cunningham
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Corresponding Author:[email protected]
Author ProfileJoannella Morales
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Aoife C Mcmahon
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Jane Loveland
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Emily Perry
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Adam Frankish
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Sarah Hunt
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Irina M Armean
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Paul Flicek
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Abstract
Variant interpretation is dependent on transcript annotation and remains time consuming and challenging. There are major obstacles for historical data reuse and for interpretation of new variants. First, both RefSeq and Ensembl/GENCODE produce transcript sets in common use, but there is currently no easy way to translate between the two. Second, the resources often used for variant interpretation (e.g., ClinVar, gnomAD, UniProt) do not use the same transcript set, nor default transcript or protein sequence. Ensembl ran a survey in 2018 to sample attitudes to choosing one default transcript per locus, and to gather data on reference sequences used by the scientific community. This was publicised on the Ensembl and UCSC genome browsers, by email and on social media. We had 788 respondents. Here we report our results and roadmap to create an effective default set of transcripts for resources, and for reporting interpretation of clinical variants.
