Hairy details The simple description of an exon fingerprint given above is complicated by initial and terminal exons, and some special rules must be defined. Later versions will implement the full phase assignment rules. The fingerprint represents a complete coding sequence, as determined from the EMBL Feature Tables, and the 5' phase of the first exon and the 3' phase of the last exon have each been assigned phase 3, accordingly. Mouse beta-globin major gene. The AC, KW, and CDS lines report the accession, keyword, and CDS fields and qualifiers from the EMBL entry.
Similar information is given for each hit.
The alignment shown is for the 113th hit of 132 known globin family members in the dataset, non-globins not appearing until somwhat later. The leading and trailing exons are identical and sufficient to guide the match, but the middle exon of the mouse gene is split in the plant homologue. Operation Exon fingerprints mined from the EMBL Feature Tables are maintained in simple text files, one fingerprint per line. A query fingerprint may be extracted from one of these libraries if it has already been deposited and you know the accession number. Only the e-mail interface is described here.