Answers.Body: <p>The tutorial you linked to does not mention ERCC or mt genes.</p>
  
  <p>Before running <code>grepl</code> or any other search, you should first check your inputs. It looks like you have WormBase gene IDs if all your genes look like <code>WBGene00023193</code>. Therefore, your question is actually how to convert WormBase gene IDs to gene symbols.</p>
  
  <p>Here is one potential solution: <a href="https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/4297" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/4297</a></p>
  
  <p>After you convert, you have to make sure that you have ERCC spike-ins in your gene table (probably not) and you mitochondrial genes start with "mt-".</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am having <code>RNA-seq</code> data set for <code>C.Elegans</code>. I do not know which annotation scientists used for naming the genes of it, but I need to search somehow for the <code>^ERCC</code> and <code>^mt-</code> genes like specified in the tutorial:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/simpleSingleCell/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/simpleSingleCell/</a></p>
  
  <p>If I just implement <code>grepl</code> search for the <code>character</code> array of gene names that I have, I am always getting all values <code>FALSE</code> as if there are no <code>spike-in</code>s and mitochindrial genes.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Sample gene name from the dataset: <code>WBGene00023193</code></p>
  
Tags: <rna-seq><gene>
Title: Get gene annotation type from gene name
ThreadText: # Get gene annotation type from gene name
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-13)
  
  I am having `RNA-seq` data set for `C.Elegans`. I do not know which annotation scientists used for naming the genes of it, but I need to search somehow for the `^ERCC` and `^mt-` genes like specified in the tutorial:
  
  <https://www.bioconductor.org/help/workflows/simpleSingleCell/>
  
  If I just implement `grepl` search for the `character` array of gene names that I have, I am always getting all values `FALSE` as if there are no `spike-in`s and mitochindrial genes.
  
  Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
  
  Sample gene name from the dataset: `WBGene00023193`
  
  **Tags:** rna-seq, gene
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-13. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  The tutorial you linked to does not mention ERCC or mt genes.
  
  Before running `grepl` or any other search, you should first check your inputs. It looks like you have WormBase gene IDs if all your genes look like `WBGene00023193`. Therefore, your question is actually how to convert WormBase gene IDs to gene symbols.
  
  Here is one potential solution: <https://github.com/WormBase/website/issues/4297>
  
  After you convert, you have to make sure that you have ERCC spike-ins in your gene table (probably not) and you mitochondrial genes start with "mt-".
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Sorry about that, the link was wrong. I updated it  
  
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