Title
Short-read reading-frame predictors are not created equal: sequence error causes loss of signal.
Abstract
Gene prediction algorithms (or gene callers) are an essential tool for analyzing shotgun nucleic acid sequence data. Gene prediction is a ubiquitous step in sequence analysis pipelines; it reduces the volume of data by identifying the most likely reading frame for a fragment, permitting the out-of-frame translations to be ignored. In this study we evaluate five widely used ab initio gene-calling algorithms—FragGeneScan, MetaGeneAnnotator, MetaGeneMark, Orphelia, and Prodigal—for accuracy on short (75–1000 bp) fragments containing sequence error from previously published artificial data and “real” metagenomic datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1186/1471-2105-13-183
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gene prediction, Sequence errors, Short reads, Reading frames, Gene callers, Ab-initio gene prediction
Alignment-free sequence analysis,Biology,Gene prediction,Coding region,Metagenomics,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Molecular Sequence Annotation,DNA microarray,Sequence assembly,Sequence analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.58
19
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William L. Trimble1332.87
Kevin P. Keegan2623.93
Mark D'Souza3181.30
Andreas Wilke431423.84
Jared Wilkening5483.77
Jack A. Gilbert6312.75
Folker Meyer748451.83