Integrating alternative splicing detection into gene prediction

Background: Alternative splicing (AS) is now considered as a major actor in transcriptome/ proteome diversity and it cannot be neglected in the annotation process of a new genome. Despite considerable progresses in term of accuracy in computational gene prediction, the ability to reliably predict AS variants when there is local experimental evidence of it remains an open challenge for gene finders. Results: We have used a new integrative approach that allows to incorporate AS detection into ab initio gene prediction. This method relies on the analysis of genomically aligned transcript sequences (ESTs and/or cDNAs), and has been implemented in the dynamic programming algorithm of the graph-based gene finder EuG

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Sylvain Foissac, Thomas Schiex
• Keywords: BMCBI 2005, Gene, Gene Finder, Gene Prediction