The Gene transfer format (GTF) is a file format used to hold information about gene structure.
It is a tab-delimited text format based on the general feature format (GFF), but contains some additional conventions specific to gene information.
A significant feature of the GTF that can be validated: given a sequence and a GTF file, one can check that the format is correct.
This significantly reduces problems with the interchange of data between groups.
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