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Vol. 10, Issue 9, 1333-1341, September 2000

Detection of Spurious Interruptions of Protein-Coding Regions in Cloned cDNA Sequences by GeneMark Analysis

Makoto Hirosawa, Ken-ichi Ishikawa, Takahiro Nagase, and Osamu Ohara1

Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0812, Japan

cDNA is an artificial copy of mRNA and, therefore, no cDNA can be completely free from suspicion of cloning errors. Because overlooking these cloning errors results in serious misinterpretation of cDNA sequences, development of an alerting system targeting spurious sequences in cloned cDNAs is an urgent requirement for massive cDNA sequence analysis. We describe here the application of a modified GeneMark program, originally designed for prokaryotic gene finding, for detection of artifacts in cDNA clones. This program serves to provide a warning when any spurious split of protein-coding regions is detected through statistical analysis of cDNA sequences based on Markov models. In this study, 817 cDNA sequences deposited in public databases by us were subjected to analysis using this alerting system to assess its sensitivity and specificity. The results indicated that any spurious split of protein-coding regions in cloned cDNAs could be sensitively detected and systematically revised by means of this system after the experimental validation of the alerts. Furthermore, this study offered us, for the first time, statistical data regarding the rates and types of errors causing protein-coding splits in cloned cDNAs obtained by conventional cloning methods.

1 Corresponding author.

10:1333-1341 ©2000 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press  ISSN 1088-9051/00 $5.00
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