Why some CDS is enlisted as non translating CDS at ENSEMBL (Plant) when it is actually encoding for a protein?

Question

[pltbiotech_tkarthi]

I am interested in a CDS at ENSEMBL, but I found it is Nontranslating CDS and not encoding for a protein. But for the same nucleotide sequence, putative protein is reported in NCBI based on computational annotation and translation. I would like to know, why in ENSEMBL it is enlisted as non translating CDS.

Answer 1

[lieven.sterck]

"putative protein" has very little meaning in the light of functional annotation, it's like 'hypothetical' , both are often the result of some automated pipeline. it even could very well be an over-prediction.

ENSEMBL uses the tag 'non-translating' CDS for instance to flag pseudogenes (== a gene like feature which likely are not functional as a proteins)

Answer 2

[pltbiotech_tkarthi]

Thanks Lieven Sterck for your kind reply. It's true one of the transcript that I am interested is not translated to a protein, it could be a pseudogene, thanks again for your suggestions.