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ArticleDNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes2023

GINGER: an integrated method for high-accuracy prediction of gene structure in higher eukaryotes at the gene and exon level.

Takeaki Taniguchi, Miki Okuno, Takahiro Shinoda, Fumiya Kobayashi, Kazuki Takahashi, Hideaki Yuasa, Yuta Nakamura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Rei Kajitani, Takehiko Itoh

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Article in DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Takeaki TaniguchiSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Miki OkunoDivision of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6164-1878
Takahiro ShinodaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Fumiya KobayashiSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Kazuki TakahashiSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Hideaki YuasaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Yuta NakamuraSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Hiroyuki TanakaSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Rei KajitaniSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5013-0052
Takehiko ItohSchool of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6113-557X

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prediction of gene structure within the genome sequence is the starting point of genome analysis, and its accuracy has a significant impact on the quality of subsequent analyses. Gene structure prediction is roughly divided into RNA-Seq-based methods, ab initio-based methods, homology-based methods, and the integration of individual prediction methods. Integrated methods are mainstream in recent genome projects because they improve prediction accuracy by combining or taking the best individual prediction findings; however, adequate prediction accuracy for eukaryotic species has not yet been achieved. Therefore, we developed an integrated tool, GINGER, that solves various issues related to gene structure prediction in higher eukaryotes. By handling artefacts in alignments of RNA and protein sequences, reconstructing gene structures via dynamic programming with appropriately weighted and scored exon/intron/intergenic regions, and applying different prediction processes and filtering criteria to multi-exon and single-exon genes, we achieved a significant improvement in accuracy compared to the existing integration methods. The feature of GINGER is its high prediction accuracy at the gene and exon levels, which is pronounced for species with more complex gene architectures. GINGER is implemented using Nextflow, which allows for the efficient and effective use of computing resources.

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Zingiber officinaleAlgorithmsEukaryotaExonsGenomeIntronsSoftwareeukaryote genomegene analysisgene prediction

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