ExonHunter

ExonHunter is a comprehensive gene finder based on hidden Markov models allowing use of variety of additional sources of information (ESTs, proteins, genome-genome comparison, repeats, and more). It is described in the following papers:

  • Brona Brejova, Daniel G. Brown, Ming Li, Tomas Vinar. ExonHunter: a comprehensive approach to gene finding. Bioinformatics, 2005. ISMB 2005.
  • Brona Brejova, Tomas Vinar, Yangyi Chen, Shengyue Wang, Guoping Zhao, Daniel G. Brown, Ming Li, Yan Zhou. Finding genes in Schistosoma japonicum: annotating novel genomes with help of extrinsic evidence. Nucleic Acids Research, 37(7):e52. April 2009.

ExonHunter prediction on part of Schistosoma japonicum genome
ExonHunter prediction on part of Schistosoma japonicum genome.

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