Gene structure prediction using information on homologous protein sequence |
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Authors: | IB Rogozin L Milanesi NA Kolchanov |
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Affiliation: | Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche Avanzate, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy. |
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Abstract: | In this paper a new approach for the prediction of protein coding gene structures is described. The principal scheme of prediction is as follows: first, the exons with the best potential are predicted in a sequence with unknown functions and a list of potential amino acid fragments coded by these exons is formed. Second, testing the homology between each amino acid fragment from the list and proteins from the SWISS-PROT database of amino acid sequences. One protein with the best homology is chosen out of all the homologous sequences. Third, reconstruction of the exon-intron structure, basing it on its homology with the chosen protein sequences. The method was tested on an independent control set (20 genes). The results were as follows: 21% of real exons were lost and 3% of non-real exons were found. This system can be used to refine the results of gene prediction systems, especially if highly homologous proteins are found in the amino acid sequence database. |
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