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 Research articleGene finding in novel genomesIan Korf  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK author email corresponding author email
BMC Bioinformatics 2004,
5:59doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-59 Abstract
Background
Computational gene prediction continues to be an important problem, especially for genomes with little experimental data.
Results
I introduce the SNAP gene finder which has been designed to be easily adaptable to a variety of genomes. In novel genomes without an appropriate gene finder, I demonstrate that employing a foreign gene finder can produce highly inaccurate results, and that the most compatible parameters may not come from the nearest phylogenetic neighbor. I find that foreign gene finders are more usefully employed to bootstrap parameter estimation and that the resulting parameters can be highly accurate.
Conclusion
Since gene prediction is sensitive to species-specific parameters, every genome needs a dedicated gene finder. |