A computational investigation of kinetoplastid trans-splicing -: art. no. R95

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Gopal, S
Awadalla, S
Gassterland, T
Cross, GAM
机构
[1] Rockefeller Univ, Lab Computat Genom, New York, NY 10021 USA
[2] Rochester Inst Technol, Dept Biol Sci, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[3] Rockefeller Univ, Mol Parasitol Lab, New York, NY 10021 USA
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10.1186/gb-2005-6-11-r95
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Trans-splicing is an unusual process in which two separate RNA strands are spliced together to yield a mature mRNA. We present a novel computational approach which has an overall accuracy of 82% and can predict 92% of known trans-splicing sites. We have applied our method to chromosomes 1 and 3 of Leishmania major, with high-confidence predictions for 85% and 88% of annotated genes respectively. We suggest some extensions of our method to other systems.
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