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An Integrated Approach for Microprotein Identification and Sequence Analysis
Published on: July 12, 2022
Computational identification of protein coding potential of conserved sequence tags through cross-species
Flavio Mignone1, Giorgio Grillo, Sabino Liuni
1Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Università di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Abstract:
The identification of conserved sequence tags (CSTs) through comparative genome analysis may reveal important regulatory elements involved in shaping the spatio-temporal expression of genetic information. It is well known that the most significant fraction of CSTs observed in human-mouse comparisons correspond to protein coding exons, due to their strong evolutionary constraints. As we still do not know the complete gene inventory of the human and mouse genomes it is of the utmost importance to establish if detected conserved sequences are genes or not. We propose here a simple algorithm that, based on the observation of the specific evolutionary dynamics of coding sequences, efficiently discriminates between coding and non-coding CSTs. The application of this method may help the validation of predicted genes, the prediction of alternative splicing patterns in known and unknown genes and the definition of a dictionary of non-coding regulatory elements.
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