What does the "% length" mean in the Homology section Best Blast Hits table?

BLAST queries can have matches with multiple regions on the same hit. WormBase attempts to reconcile this information and present a value which represents the extent of coverage of all matches on the target sequence.

What do the different gene model Status lines (ie confirmed) shown on the Gene Page and in the GFF files mean?

• confirmed_inconsistent - means that a curator has decided that the intron doesn't fit with what we consider to be a valid transcript or there appears to be something wrong with the Transcript that confirms the intron.

• confirmed_est - an intron confirmed by EST transcript sequence data

• confirmed_cdna - an intron confirmed by cDNA/mRNA transcript sequence data

• confirmed_false - these are where curators have confirmed that the confirmed intron is false or artefactual.

• other confirmed_* types that a curator can add are:

• confirmed_UTR - used when a confirmed intron looks like it is in the UTR of a gene.

• confirmed_Homology - although I don't think this has ever been used.