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An Integrated Approach for Microprotein Identification and Sequence Analysis
Published on: July 12, 2022
The elusive short gene--an ensemble method for recognition for prokaryotic genome
Baharak Goli1, Achuthsankar S Nair
1Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum 695581, India. baharak_goli@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Accurate prediction of short protein coding DNA from genome sequence information remains an unsolved problem in DNA sequence analysis. Popular gene finding tools show drastic reduction in accuracy while attempting to predict genes of length less than 400 nt, a length we define as short. This study performs a quantitative evaluation of a set of selected coding measures in terms of their discriminative power in recognizing short genes in prokaryotic genomes. By performing Fast Correlation Based Feature Selection (FCBF) technique, we identified a subset of coding measures with high discriminative power. Using the measures identified thus, we present a novel approach for short genes recognition. A short-gene predictor employing AdaBoost.M1 in conjunction with random forests as the base classifier gives 92.74% accuracy, 94.77% sensitivity and 90.06% specificity on short genes.
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