Advancing the state of the art in computational gene prediction

Authors:
William H. Majoros;Uwe Ohler
Affiliations:
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC;Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC
Venue:
KDECB'06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge discovery and emergent complexity in bioinformatics
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Current methods for computationally predicting the locations and intron-exon structures of protein-coding genes in eukaryotic DNA are largely based on probabilistic, state-based generative models such as hidden Markov models and their various extensions. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to the optimality of these models for the gene-parsing problem. Furthermore, as the prevalence of alternative splicing in human genes becomes more apparent, the "one gene, one parse" discipline endorsed by virtually all current gene-finding systems becomes less attractive from a biomedical perspective. Because our ability to accurately identify all the isoforms of each gene in the genome is of direct importance to biomedicine, our ability to improve gene-finding accuracy both for human and non-human DNA clearly has a potential to significantly impact human health. In this paper we review current methods and suggest a number of possible directions for further research that may alleviate some of these problems and ultimately lead to better and more useful gene predictions.