How to map and annotate gene symbols to gene type?

Question

[mohammedtoufiq91]

Hi,

I am working with total RNA-Seq dataset and aligned fastq files against hg38 using STAR and quantified using salmon. Now I am interested in annotating each gene symbol with gene type annotations (for instance; whether the gene is protein_coding, lncRNA, miRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, tRNA etc.,). Is there a way to map the gene symbols to gene types?

Thank you,

Toufiq

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Use BioMart at Ensembl. Choose Attributes as needed.

[mohammedtoufiq91]

GenoMax thank you. Does this works in biomart R package too?

[GenoMax]

Yes it should. Look for biotypes (LINK).