Chunk #12 — THE DATABASE — Annotation and selection of principal isoforms

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APPRIS: annotation of principal and alternative splice isoforms.

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The second principle is that the principal isoform should have more evolutionary history. The principal isoform ought to be the variant that is most conserved across related species. It has been shown that alternative exons tend to have evolved more recently (38), so this is a reasonable assumption.