Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-21-2005
Publication Title
BMC Bioinformatics
Volume
6
Issue
261
First Page
1
Last Page
13
Abstract
Background: Accurate and automatic gene finding and structural prediction is a common problem in bioinformatics, and applications need to be capable of handling non-canonical splice sites, microexons and partial gene structure predictions that span across several genomic clones.
Results: We present a mRNA/DNA homology based gene structure prediction tool, GIGOgene. We use a new affine gap penalty splice-enhanced global alignment algorithm running in linear memory for a high quality annotation of splice sites. Our tool includes a novel algorithm to assemble partial gene structure predictions using interval graphs. GIGOgene exhibited a sensitivity of 99.08% and a specificity of 99.98% on the Genie learning set, and demonstrated a higher quality of gene structural prediction when compared to Sim4, est2genome, Spidey, Galahad and BLAT, including when genes contained micro-exons and non-canonical splice sites. GIGOgene showed an acceptable loss of prediction quality when confronted with a noisy Genie learning set simulating ESTs.
Conclusion: GIGOgene shows a higher quality of gene structure prediction for mRNA/DNA spliced alignment when compared to other available tools.
Recommended Citation
Churbanov, Alexander; Pauley, Mark; Quest, Daniel; and Ali, Hesham, "A method of precise mRNA/DNA homology-based gene structure prediction" (2005). Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/isqafacpub/59
Comments
© 2005 Churbanov et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).
doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-261