Promoter Prediction on a Genomic Scale—The Adh Experience

  1. Uwe Ohler
  1. Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany and Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 USA

Abstract

We describe our statistical system for promoter recognition in genomic DNA with which we took part in the Genome Annotation Assessment Project (GASP1). We applied two versions of the system: the first uses a region-based approach toward transcription start site identification, namely, interpolated Markov chains; the second was a hybrid approach combining regions and signals within a stochastic segment model. We compare the results of both versions with each other and examine how well the application on a genomic scale compares with the results we previously obtained on smaller data sets.

Footnotes

  • E-MAIL ohler{at}informatik.uni-erlangen.de; FAX 49-9131-303811.

    • Received February 9, 2000.
    • Accepted February 25, 2000.
| Table of Contents

Preprint Server