title: GlimmerM, Exonomy and Unveil: three ab initio eukaryotic genefinders.
abstract: We present three programs for ab initio gene prediction in eukaryotes: Exonomy, Unveil and GlimmerM. Exonomy is a 23-state Generalized Hidden Markov Model (GHMM), Unveil is a 283-state standard Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and GlimmerM is a previously-described genefinder which utilizes decision trees and Interpolated Markov Models (IMMs). All three are readily re-trainable for new organisms and have been found to perform well compared to other genefinders. Results are presented for Arabidopsis thaliana. Cases have been found where each of the genefinders outperforms each of the others, demonstrating the collective value of this ensemble of genefinders. These programs are all accessible through webservers at http://www.tigr.org/software.
authors.affiliation: The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. bmajoros@tigr.org
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Majoros
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pertea
authors.forename: Corina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonescu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Salzberg
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D005091:Exons; D005796:Genes; D017343:Genes, Plant; D020407:Internet; D007438:Introns; D008390:Markov Chains; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software