tRNAscan-SE: A program for improved detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence

被引:9642
作者
Lowe, TM [1 ]
Eddy, SR [1 ]
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[1] WASHINGTON UNIV, SCH MED, DEPT GENET, ST LOUIS, MO 63110 USA
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10.1093/nar/25.5.955
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 [生物化学与分子生物学]; 081704 [应用化学];
摘要
We describe a program, tRNAscan-SE, which identifies 99-100% of transfer RNA genes in DNA sequence while giving less than one false positive per 15 gigabases. Two previously described tRNA detection programs are used as fast, first-pass prefilters to identify candidate tRNAs, which are then analyzed by a highly selective tRNA covariance model. This work represents a practical application of RNA covariance models, which are general, probabilistic secondary structure profiles based on stochastic context-free grammars. tRNAscan-SE searches at similar to 30 000 bp/s. Additional extensions to tRNAscan-SE detect unusual tRNA homologues such as selenocysteine tRNAs, tRNA-derived repetitive elements and tRNA pseudogenes.
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