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. 2009 Jul 15;25(14):1843-5.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp272. Epub 2009 Apr 23.

MetaTISA: Metagenomic Translation Initiation Site Annotator for improving gene start prediction

Gang-Qing Hu  1 , Jiang-Tao Guo, Yong-Chu Liu, Huaiqiu Zhu
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MetaTISA: Metagenomic Translation Initiation Site Annotator for improving gene start prediction

Gang-Qing Hu et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Summary: We proposed a tool named MetaTISA with an aim to improve TIS prediction of current gene-finders for metagenomes. The method employs a two-step strategy to predict translation initiation sites (TISs) by first clustering metagenomic fragments into phylogenetic groups and then predicting TISs independently for each group in an unsupervised manner. As evaluated on experimentally verified TISs, MetaTISA greatly improves the accuracies of TIS prediction of current gene-finders.

Availability: The C++ source code is freely available under the GNU GPL license via http://mech.ctb.pku.edu.cn/MetaTISA/.

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