title: Candidates in Astroviruses, Seadornaviruses, Cytorhabdoviruses and Coronaviruses for +1 frame overlapping genes accessed by leaky scanning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Overlapping genes are common in RNA viruses where they serve as a mechanism to optimize the coding potential of compact genomes. However, annotation of overlapping genes can be difficult using conventional gene-finding software. Recently we have been using a number of complementary approaches to systematically identify previously undetected overlapping genes in RNA virus genomes. In this article we gather together a number of promising candidate new overlapping genes that may be of interest to the community.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overlapping gene predictions are presented for the astroviruses, seadornaviruses, cytorhabdoviruses and coronaviruses (families Astroviridae, Reoviridae, Rhabdoviridae and Coronaviridae, respectively).
authors.affiliation: BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. A.Firth@ucc.ie
authors.forename: Andrew E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Firth
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Atkins
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D005807:Genes, Overlapping; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral