会议专题

A novel gene identification method in metagenomic shotgun reads

The newly-developed metagenomic approach which obtains shotgun DNA sequences directly from environments is rapidly becoming a powerful approach for studying the microorganisms in natural niches and microbiomes resided in and on human bodies. As many sequences remain as unassembled one-pass reads, most conventional gene-finding tools are failure to identify genes in metagenomic samples. Although similarity-based method is widely used currently, its also questioned for its disability in finding novel genes. Up to now, several algorithms were desired for ab initio metagenomic gene identification. MetaGene and MetaGeneMark construct regressive models between frequencies of oligonucleotides in protein-coding regions and genomic nucleotide composition, while Orphelia uses a large scale machine-learning method with a combination of neural networks and linear discriminates. Here, we present a novel method, MetaGun, which comprises a supervised universal model and a data-specific novel model based on SVM architectre.

Yong-Chu Liu Jiang-Tao Guo Huaiqiu Zhu

Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, and Center for Theoretical Biology Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

国际会议

第四届全国生物信息学与系统生物学学术大会

杭州

英文

20-22

2010-10-01(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)