Final GFF is listing human gene names with random underscores at the end

[jdee3]

Are you using the latest release? Yes.

Describe the bug I've obtained the final gff after running 'funannotate annotate'. However, I've noticed that a lot of the gene names have underscores in them, when they shouldn't be there. For example, "PNRC2_1", "PNRC2_2", "ACO1_1", "ACO1_2", when the actual genes names should be listed as "PNRC2" and "ACO1". These are human genes, for reference. Can someone please explain what's happening, and how I can get it to print out the gene names properly? Thank you.

What command did you issue? #funannotate annotate -i ./Output --busco_db mammalia --cpus 16 --eggnog ./test.emapper.annotations

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Checking Environmental Variables... $FUNANNOTATE_DB=/home/xxx/funannotate_db $PASAHOME=/home/xxx/miniconda3/envs/funannotate/opt/pasa-2.5.3 $TRINITY_HOME=/home/xxx/miniconda3/envs/funannotate/opt/trinity-2.8.5 $EVM_HOME=/home/xxx/miniconda3/envs/funannotate/opt/evidencemodeler-1.1.1 $AUGUSTUS_CONFIG_PATH=/home/xxx/miniconda3/envs/funannotate/config/ ERROR: GENEMARK_PATH not set. export GENEMARK_PATH=/path/to/dir

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[nextgenusfs]

I've obtained the final gff after running 'funannotate annotate'. However, I've noticed that a lot of the gene names have underscores in them, when they shouldn't be there. For example, "PNRC2_1", "PNRC2_2", "ACO1_1", "ACO1_2", when the actual genes names should be listed as "PNRC2" and "ACO1". These are human genes, for reference. Can someone please explain what's happening, and how I can get it to print out the gene names properly? Thank you.

The scripts will do this when there are two homologs present, ie do you have a haploid assembly or are there two copies of some genes?

[jdee3]

Hi Jon, thanks for the reply!

This a previously uncharacterized diploid mammal species. The transcript support came from a de novo Trinity transcriptome reconstruction, and the protein support was a concatenated, non-redundant fasta with swissprot protein sequences from other mammals. Not sure what you mean by two copies of some genes...how would this arise? From the genome assembly?

I greatly appreciate your help, thank you.

[nextgenusfs]

Is your assembly diploid or haploid was all I was asking. If it's diploid (two copies of each gene) that would explain the behavior.

[jdee3]

Yes, diploid. How can I circumvent this issue though? Can I just rename the genes, removing the underscores?

[nextgenusfs]

I wouldn't call it an "issue" you can't have two identical gene names I don't think per NCBI rules. Assemblies were haploidized traditionally, but since I don't work on diploids I don't know what the current rules are as technology now allows for phased assemblies.