Table 1 Description of features used.
From: Ensemble approach combining multiple methods improves human transcription start site prediction
Feature | Information |
|---|---|
Profisi | DNA melting temperature, as calculated with Fixman & Freire's method |
ARTS | Custom SVM kernel using both sequence and structural information |
N-SCAN | HMM gene predictor - start of 5' UTR defines TSS |
FirstEF | Decision tree using k-mers, GC and CpG content |
Eponine | RVM using mixture of Gaussian distributions of position weight matrices |
ProSOM | Self-organising map trained on base stacking energy |
EP3 | Base stacking energy |
Methylation | Experimentally determined CpG methylation profiles |
Conservation | 17-way vertebrate conservation scores |