title: Dragon Gene Start Finder identifies approximate locations of the 5' ends of genes.
abstract: Recognition of gene starts is a difficult and yet unsolved problem. We present a program, Dragon Gene Start Finder (DGSF), which assesses the gene start in mammalian genomes and predicts a region which should overlap with the first exon of the gene or be in its proximity. The program has been rigorously tested on human chromosomes 4, 21 and 22, and in a strand specific search achieves an overall sensitivity of approximately 65% and a positive predictive value of approximately 78%. The sensitivity for the CpG-island related promoters is >88%. DGSF is free for academic and non-profit users at http://sdmc.lit.org.sg/promoter/dragonGSF1_0/genestart.htm; the download version of the program integrated within the TRANSPLORER package can be obtained from Biobase GmbH, at http://www.biobase.de/.
authors.affiliation: Knowledge Extraction Laboratory. Discovery Systems Laboratory, Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613. bajicv@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Vladimir B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Bajic
authors.forename: Seng Hong
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Seah
mesh_terms: D024506:5' Flanking Region; D000465:Algorithms; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D018899:CpG Islands; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D024363:Transcription Initiation Site