How should I handle known/unknown exon boundaries in my target transcriptome sequences for myBaits Custom bait design?

If you are using transcriptome sequences for your bait design, you may or may not know the location of the exon boundaries. However, this is not necessarily a problem for bait design, since we will typically design overlapping baits tiled across the full sequence. Any baits spanning across exon boundaries may not work well, but they will have neighboring baits which will still function. However any short exons (below the bait length) may not be recoverable unless they can be “padded” with true genomic (intronic) sequence.