Abstract:
:A new system, ZCURVE 1.0, for finding protein- coding genes in bacterial and archaeal genomes has been proposed. The current algorithm, which is based on the Z curve representation of the DNA sequences, lays stress on the global statistical features of protein-coding genes by taking the frequencies of bases at three codon positions into account. In ZCURVE 1.0, since only 33 parameters are used to characterize the coding sequences, it gives better consideration to both typical and atypical cases, whereas in Markov-model-based methods, e.g. Glimmer 2.02, thousands of parameters are trained, which may result in less adaptability. To compare the performance of the new system with that of Glimmer 2.02, both systems were run, respectively, for 18 genomes not annotated by the Glimmer system. Comparisons were also performed for predicting some function-known genes by both systems. Consequently, the average accuracy of both systems is well matched; however, ZCURVE 1.0 has more accurate gene start prediction, lower additional prediction rate and higher accuracy for the prediction of horizontally transferred genes. It is shown that the joint applications of both systems greatly improve gene-finding results. For a typical genome, e.g. Escherichia coli, the system ZCURVE 1.0 takes approximately 2 min on a Pentium III 866 PC without any human intervention. The system ZCURVE 1.0 is freely available at: http://tubic. tju.edu.cn/Zcurve_B/.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Guo FB,Ou HY,Zhang CTdoi
10.1093/nar/gkg254keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2003-03-15 00:00:00pages
1780-9issue
6eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962journal_volume
31pub_type
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journal_title:Nucleic acids research
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更新日期:1989-08-11 00:00:00
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journal_title:Nucleic acids research
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1093/nar/gkg746
更新日期:2003-09-15 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/nar/20.15.4055
更新日期:1992-08-11 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Nucleic acids research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/nar/gkq827
更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-12-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Nucleic acids research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1093/nar/gnh104
更新日期:2004-07-16 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1987-04-10 00:00:00
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