The expression can be traced back to horse racing in the 1700s when goats were used to settle the horses. A young goat. An idiom is a turn of phrase that doesn't make sense when literally translated.
Description: GTF file is a General Feature Format File. 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.
Subject: Re: [genome] Question about GTF files Hello Shweta, Can you clarify what GTF files at UCSC you are referring to? Most of our files are not stored in GTF format, but it is possible to export gene annotation tracks from the Table Browser in GTF format. How did you retrieve GTF files from UCSC? Which track are the GTF files from?