Identification of ribosomal RNA genes in metagenomic fragments.
basic_science · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 19346323.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp161 and PMC identifier 2677747.
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Abstract
Identification of genes coding for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is considered an important goal in the analysis of data from metagenomics projects. Here, we report the development of a software program designed for the identification of rRNA genes from metagenomic fragments based on hidden Markov models (HMMs). This program provides rRNA gene predictions with high sensitivity and specificity on artificially fragmented genomic DNAs. Supplementary files, scripts and sample data are available at http://tools.camera.calit2.net/camera/meta_rna.
Medical subject headings
- Genes, rRNA
- Genomics
- Software