GeneScout: A data mining system for predicting vertebrate genes in genomic DNA sequences

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-14-2004

Abstract

Automated detection or prediction of coding sequences from within genomic DNA has been a major rate-limiting step in the pursuit of vertebrate genes. Programs currently available are far from being powerful enough to elucidate a gene structure completely. In this paper, we present a new system, called GeneScout, for predicting gene structures in vertebrate genomic DNA. The system contains specially designed hidden Markov models (HMMs) for detecting functional sites including protein-translation start sites, mRNA splicing junction donor and acceptor sites, etc. An HMM model is also proposed for exon coding potential computation. Our main hypothesis is that, given a vertebrate genomic DNA sequence S, it is always possible to construct a directed acyclic graph G such that the path for the actual coding region of S is in the set of all paths on G. Thus, the gene detection problem is reduced to that of analyzing the paths in the graph G. A dynamic programming algorithm is used to find the optimal path in G. The proposed system is trained using an expectation-maximization algorithm and its performance on vertebrate gene prediction is evaluated using the 10-way cross-validation method. Experimental results show that the proposed system performs well and is comparable to existing gene discovery tools. © 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Identifier

2442705676 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Information Sciences

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2003.03.016

ISSN

00200255

First Page

201

Last Page

218

Issue

1-3

Volume

163

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