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#410 Proposed term for transcript assembly alignments
I'm proposing a new child for the term "nucleotide_match." ESTs and full-length cDNAs are typically aligned to a genome directly, but it is also common to align assemblies of ESTs and (especially more recently) RNA-Seq reads. The latter are qualitatively different from the former in that they are subject not only to sequencing errors but also assembly artifacts.
I propose the term "assembled_nucleotide_match" to help enforce this distinction.
The name here is a bit weird as a genome is also an assembly. Could we call it it something more descriptive like short read assembly nucleotide match? transcript_assembly_nucleotide_match?
Sorry this request got lost in the ether.
Although it doesn't quite roll off the tongue, I think transcript_assembly_nucleotide_match may be our best option.