Recognition of 3-processing sites of human mrna precursors

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We have developed a computer program POLYAH and an algorithm for the identification of 3'-processing sites of human mRNA precursors. The algorithm is based on a linear discriminant function (LDF) trained to discriminate real poly(A) signal regions from the other regions of human genes possessing the AATAAA sequence which is most likely nonfunctional. As the parameters of LDF, various significant contextual characteristics of sequences surrounding AATAAA signals were used. An accuracy of method has been estimated on a set of 131 poly(A) regions and 1466 regions of human genes having the AATAAA sequence. When the threshold was set to predict 86% of poly(A) regions correctly, specificity of 51% and correlation coefficient of 0.62 had been achieved. The precision of this approach is better than for the other methods and has been tested on a larger data set. POLYAH can be used through World Wide Web (at Gene-Finder Home page: URL http: //dot.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu: 9331/gene-finder/ gf.html) or by sending files with uncharacterized human sequences to the University of Houston or Weizmann Institute of Science e-mail servers. © 1997, Oxford University Press.

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Salamovand, A. A., & Solovyev, V. V. (1997). Recognition of 3-processing sites of human mrna precursors. Bioinformatics, 13(1), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/13.1.23

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