Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-3-2006
Publication Title
Biology Direct
Volume
1
Issue
10
First Page
1
Last Page
23
Abstract
Background: Predicting and proper ranking of canonical splice sites (SSs) is a challenging problem in bioinformatics and machine learning communities. Any progress in SSs recognition will lead to better understanding of splicing mechanism. We introduce several new approaches of combining a priori knowledge for improved SS detection. First, we design our new Bayesian SS sensor based on oligonucleotide counting. To further enhance prediction quality, we applied our new de novo motif detection tool MHMMotif to intronic ends and exons. We combine elements found with sensor information using Naive Bayesian Network, as implemented in our new tool SpliceScan.
Results: According to our tests, the Bayesian sensor outperforms the contemporary Maximum Entropy sensor for 5' SS detection. We report a number of putative Exonic (ESE) and Intronic (ISE) Splicing Enhancers found by MHMMotif tool. T-test statistics on mouse/rat intronic alignments indicates, that detected elements are on average more conserved as compared to other oligos, which supports our assumption of their functional importance. The tool has been shown to outperform the SpliceView, GeneSplicer, NNSplice, Genio and NetUTR tools for the test set of human genes. SpliceScan outperforms all contemporary ab initio gene structural prediction tools on the set of 5' UTR gene fragments.
Conclusion: Designed methods have many attractive properties, compared to existing approaches. Bayesian sensor, MHMMotif program and SpliceScan tools are freely available on our web site.
Reviewers: This article was reviewed by Manyuan Long, Arcady Mushegian and Mikhail Gelfand.
Recommended Citation
Churbanov, Alexander; Rogozin, Igor B.; Deogun, Jitender S.; and Ali, Hesham, "Method of predicting Splice Sites based on signal interactions" (2006). Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications. 57.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/isqafacpub/57
Comments
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doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-10