title: Gene identification: methods and considerations.
abstract: This unit introduces readers to some of the more commonly used techniques for gene identification. The author discusses the general problem behind accurately predicting genes in both prefinished and finished sequence data, provides a handson description of programs available in the public domain, and suggests strategies for how to best tackle the prediction problem at various stages of data generation and assembly. This unit introduces readers to some of the more commonly used techniques for gene identification.
authors.affiliation: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Baxevanis
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D005091:Exons; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D023281:Genomics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007438:Introns; D012984:Software