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ReviewBioinformatics and biology insights2016

Computational Identification of Novel Genes: Current and Future Perspectives.

Steffen Klasberg, Tristan Bitard-Feildel, Ludovic Mallet

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Review in Bioinformatics and biology insights, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steffen KlasbergInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Huefferstrasse 1, Muenster, Germany.
Tristan Bitard-FeildelInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Huefferstrasse 1, Muenster, Germany.
Ludovic MalletInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Westfalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Huefferstrasse 1, Muenster, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While it has long been thought that all genomic novelties are derived from the existing material, many genes lacking homology to known genes were found in recent genome projects. Some of these novel genes were proposed to have evolved de novo, ie, out of noncoding sequences, whereas some have been shown to follow a duplication and divergence process. Their discovery called for an extension of the historical hypotheses about gene origination. Besides the theoretical breakthrough, increasing evidence accumulated that novel genes play important roles in evolutionary processes, including adaptation and speciation events. Different techniques are available to identify genes and classify them as novel. Their classification as novel is usually based on their similarity to known genes, or lack thereof, detected by comparative genomics or against databases. Computational approaches are further prime methods that can be based on existing models or leveraging biological evidences from experiments. Identification of novel genes remains however a challenging task. With the constant software and technologies updates, no gold standard, and no available benchmark, evaluation and characterization of genomic novelty is a vibrant field. In this review, the classical and state-of-the-art tools for gene prediction are introduced. The current methods for novel gene detection are presented; the methodological strategies and their limits are discussed along with perspective approaches for further studies.

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de novo genesevolutionary genomicsgene detectionnovel domainsnovel genes

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PMID27493475
PMCPMC4970615

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