On 2017 Mar 03, Matthew Speir commented:

To add on to what Kim Pruitt said in her comment, our previous "RefSeq Genes" track was not equivalent to what was provided by RefSeq. It was based on the realignment of their provided RNAs to the genome.

However, we recently released an "NCBI RefSeq" track that is based entirely on coordinates and alignments provided by the RefSeq group. You can read about it more on our website: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/newsarch.html#030317.

On 2015 Mar 18, Kim D Pruitt commented:

As the head of NCBI’s RefSeq project I would like to make a clarification on the relevance of the authors' results to RefSeq. The authors refer to the RefSeq dataset and UCSC RefGene dataset as if they are equivalent. However, the RefGene data represents annotation derived from UCSC-generated alignments of approximately 1/3 of the RefSeq data. The analysis presented here is of the UCSC RefGene dataset and not the complete RefSeq set as obtained at NCBI which builds and curates RefSeq. NCBI also provides human genome annotation data that includes the comprehensive RefSeq transcript data set. Details about the annotated location of a given RefSeq transcript at NCBI may differ from that shown in the UCSC RefGene track.

Therefore, the relevance of this analysis to RefSeq is unclear.

On 2015 Mar 18, Kim D Pruitt commented:

As the head of NCBI’s RefSeq project I would like to make a clarification on the relevance of the authors' results to RefSeq. The authors refer to the RefSeq dataset and UCSC RefGene dataset as if they are equivalent. However, the RefGene data represents annotation derived from UCSC-generated alignments of approximately 1/3 of the RefSeq data. The analysis presented here is of the UCSC RefGene dataset and not the complete RefSeq set as obtained at NCBI which builds and curates RefSeq. NCBI also provides human genome annotation data that includes the comprehensive RefSeq transcript data set. Details about the annotated location of a given RefSeq transcript at NCBI may differ from that shown in the UCSC RefGene track.

Therefore, the relevance of this analysis to RefSeq is unclear.

On 2017 Mar 03, Matthew Speir commented:

To add on to what Kim Pruitt said in her comment, our previous "RefSeq Genes" track was not equivalent to what was provided by RefSeq. It was based on the realignment of their provided RNAs to the genome.

However, we recently released an "NCBI RefSeq" track that is based entirely on coordinates and alignments provided by the RefSeq group. You can read about it more on our website: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/newsarch.html#030317.