A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions. [ http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:immuno_workshop ]
Synonyms: INSDC_feature:gene
Term information
SOFA
This term is mapped to MGED. Do not obsolete without consulting MGED ontology. A gene may be considered as a unit of inheritance.