Sequence feature types

• Transcribed region

  • mRNA, tRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, rRNA

• Structural region

  • Exon, intron, 5’ UTR, 3’ UTR, ORF, cleavage product
  • Mutations: insertion, deletion, substitution, inversion, translocation
  • Functional or signal region
  • Promoter, enhancer, DNA/RNA binding site, splice site signal, poly-adenylation signal
  • Protein processing: glycosylation, methylation, phosphorylation site

• Similarity

  • Homolog, paralog, genomic overlap (syntenic region)

• Other feature types

  • Transposable element, repetitive element
  • Pseudogene
  • STS, insertion site

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