Separation of sequences from host–pathogen interface using triplet nucleotide frequencies

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• 作者：Jeppe Emmersen ; Stephen Rudd ; Hans-Werner Mewes ; Igor V. Tetko
• 关键词：Plant– ; fungi interactions ; EST data analysis ; Bioinformatics ; Codon usage ; Codon bias
• 刊名：Fungal Genetics and Biology
• 出版年：2007
• 期刊代码：116_10871845
• 类别：abs
• 出版时间：April 2007
• 卷：44
• 期：4
• 页码：231-241
• 文件大小：264 K

摘要

The identification of genes involved in host–pathogen interactions is important for the elucidation of mechanisms of disease resistance and host susceptibility. A traditional way to classify the origin of genes sampled from a pool of mixed cDNA is through sequence similarity to known genes from either the pathogen or host organism or other closely related species. This approach does not work when the identified sequence has no close homologues in the sequence databases. In our previous studies, we classified genes using their codon frequencies. This method, however, explicitly required the prediction of CDS regions and thus could not be applied to sequences composed from the non-coding regions of genes. In this study, we show that the use of sliding-window triplet frequencies extends the application of the algorithm to both coding and non-coding sequences and also increases the prediction accuracy of a Support Vector Machine classifier from 95.6 ± 0.3 to 96.5 ± 0.2. Thus the use of the triplet frequencies increased the prediction accuracy of the new method by more than 20%compared to our previous approach. A functional analysis of sequences detected gene families having significantly higher or lower probability to be correctly classified compared to the average accuracy of the method is described. The server to perform classification of EST sequences using triplet frequencies is available at http://mips.gsf.de/proj/est3.