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Seven clusters in genomic triplet distributions

Gorban, Prof. Alexander N. and Zinovyev, Dr. Andrei Yu and Popova, Dr. Tatyana G. (2002) Seven clusters in genomic triplet distributions. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Motivation: In several recent papers new algorithms were proposed for detecting coding regions without requiring learning dataset of already known genes. In this paper we studied cluster structure of several genomes in the space of codon usage. This allowed to interpret some of the results obtained in other studies and propose a simpler method, which is, nevertheless, fully functional. Results: Several complete genomic sequences were analyzed, using visualization of tables of triplet counts in a sliding window. The distribution of 64-dimensional vectors of triplet frequencies displays a well-detectable cluster structure. The structure was found to consist of seven clusters, corresponding to protein-coding information in three possible phases in one of the two complementary strands and in the non-coding regions. Awareness of the existence of this structure allows development of methods for the segmentation of sequences into regions with the same coding phase and non-coding regions. This method may be completely unsupervised or use some external information. Since the method does not need extraction of ORFs, it can be applied even for unassembled genomes. Accuracy calculated on the base-pair level (both sensitivity and specificity) exceeds 90%. This is not worse as compared to such methods as HMM, however, has the advantage to be much simpler and clear.

Item Type:Preprint
Additional Information:The universal seven-cluster structure of genetic texts is presented. This structure seems to be important, simple and geometrically elegant, as one can see from the illustrations. It could be interesting for the experts in genomics as well as for the scientists from other fields.
Keywords:genomic, cluster, gene finding, data vizualization, codon usage
Subjects:Biology > Theoretical Biology
ID Code:3077
Deposited By: Gorban, Prof Alexander N.
Deposited On:23 Jul 2003
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:55

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