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      AGenDA: gene prediction by comparative sequence analysis.

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      Algorithms, Animals, Exons, Humans, Mice, Sequence Analysis

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          Comparative sequence analysis is a powerful approach to identify functional elements in genomic sequences. Herein, we describe AGenDA (Alignment-based GENe Detection Algorithm), a novel method for gene prediction that is based on long-range alignment of syntenic regions in eukaryotic genome sequences. Local sequence homologies identified by the DIALIGN program are searched for conserved splice signals to define potential protein-coding exons; these candidate exons are then used to assemble complete gene structures. The performance of our method was tested on a set of 105 human-mouse sequence pairs. These test runs showed that sensitivity and specificity of AGenDA are comparable with the best gene- prediction program that is currently available. However, since our method is based on a completely different type of input information, it can detect genes that are not detectable by standard methods and vice versa. Thus, our approach seems to be a useful addition to existing gene-prediction programs. DIALIGN is available through the Bielefeld Bioinformatics Server (BiBiServ) at http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/dialign/ The gene-prediction program AGenDA described in this paper will be available through the BiBiServ or MIPS web server at http://mips.gsf.de.

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          12542405

          Chemistry
          Algorithms,Animals,Exons,Humans,Mice,Sequence Analysis
          Chemistry
          Algorithms, Animals, Exons, Humans, Mice, Sequence Analysis

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