Protein coding identification using modified gabor wavelet transform on multicore system

• Main Author: Gunawan, Teddy Surya
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press 2011
• Subjects: TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/21667/1/Chapter_34.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/21667/; http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx

The gene identification problem, which identifies the protein-coding regions (exons) in DNA sequences through computational means, is of great importance nowadays. A DNA sequence can be divided into genes and intergenic spaces. In eukaryotic genes, these regions can be divided into two sub-regions called coding regions (exons) and non-coding regions (introns). The intergenic and intronic regions make up most of the genome. For example, in the human genome, the exonic fraction is as low as 2%. It is well known that protein-coding regions of DNA sequences tend to exhibit a period-3 pattern because of the codon structure involved in the translation of base sequences into amino acids [1-4]. Many researchers have regarded the period-3 property to be a good indicator ofgene location.