title: Human Pol II promoter recognition based on primary sequences and free energy of dinucleotides.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Promoter region plays an important role in determining where the transcription of a particular gene should be initiated. Computational prediction of eukaryotic Pol II promoter sequences is one of the most significant problems in sequence analysis. Existing promoter prediction methods are still far from being satisfactory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We attempt to recognize the human Pol II promoter sequences from the non-promoter sequences which are made up of exon and intron sequences. Four methods are used: two kinds of multifractal analysis performed on the numeric sequences obtained from the dinucleotide free energy, Z curve analysis and global descriptor of the promoter/non-promoter primary sequences. A total of 141 parameters are extracted from these methods and categorized into seven groups (methods). They are used to generate certain spaces and then each promoter/non-promoter sequence is represented by a point in the corresponding space. All the 120 possible combinations of the seven methods are tested. Based on Fisher's linear discriminant algorithm, with a relatively smaller number of parameters (96 and 117), we get satisfactory discriminant accuracies. Particularly, in the case of 117 parameters, the accuracies for the training and test sets reach 90.43% and 89.79%, respectively. A comparison with five other existing methods indicates that our methods have a better performance. Using the global descriptor method (36 parameters), 17 of the 18 experimentally verified promoter sequences of human chromosome 22 are correctly identified.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The high accuracies achieved suggest that the methods of this paper are useful for understanding the difficult problem of promoter prediction.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Hunan 411105, China. yangjianyiapple@163.com
authors.forename: Jian-Yi
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Zu-Guo
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Vo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Anh
authors.forename: Li-Qian
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D004257:DNA Polymerase II / Q000235:genetics*; D019277:Entropy; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004257:DNA Polymerase II