Title
Determination and validation of principal gene products
Abstract
Motivation: Alternative splicing has the potential to generate a wide range of protein isoforms. For many computational applications and for experimental research, it is important to be able to concentrate on the isoform that retains the core biological function. For many genes this is far from clear. Results: We have combined five methods into a pipeline that allows us to detect the principal variant for a gene. Most of the methods were based on conservation between species, at the level of both gene and protein. The five methods used were the conservation of exonic structure, the detection of non-neutral evolution, the conservation of functional residues, the existence of a known protein structure and the abundance of vertebrate orthologues. The pipeline was able to determine a principal isoform for 83% of a set of well-annotated genes with multiple variants. Contact: mtress@cnio.es Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm547
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
sequence analysis,algorithms,protein structure,gene expression profiling,alternative splicing,sequence alignment,neutral evolution
Sequence alignment,Gene isoform,Gene,Biology,Alternative splicing,Function (biology),Bioinformatics,Gene expression profiling,Protein structure,Sequence analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
1
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.71
12
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael L Tress118311.61
Jan-Jaap Wesselink2252.74
Adam Frankish3575.40
Gonzalo Lopez41027.61
Nick Goldman51309.60
A Löytynoja6694.22
Tim Massingham71059.16
Fabio Pardi8175.58
Simon Whelan9394.82
Jennifer L. Harrow1070.71
Alfonso Valencia112577322.43