Alternative splicing - splice variant query

[genetics]

Hello everyone,

I am new to bioinformatics and would really appreciate help with a query that I have: I am reviewing a sequence on 'VectorBase' and it tells me that the sequence has "1 transcript (splice variant)" - what is this referring to? Is it important to take into consideration when analysing a sequence (it is for a postgraduate report). I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Thank you in advance.

[GenoMax]

See this Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing