Promotech: a general tool for bacterial promoter recognition

Abstract Promoters are genomic regions where the transcription machinery binds to initiate the transcription of specific genes. Computational tools for identifying bacterial promoters have been around for decades. However, most of these tools were designed to recognize promoters in one or few bacter...

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Autores principales: Ruben Chevez-Guardado, Lourdes Peña-Castillo
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Publicado: BMC 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4c25846f67f044478efda23b23a4ecaf
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Sumario:Abstract Promoters are genomic regions where the transcription machinery binds to initiate the transcription of specific genes. Computational tools for identifying bacterial promoters have been around for decades. However, most of these tools were designed to recognize promoters in one or few bacterial species. Here, we present Promotech, a machine-learning-based method for promoter recognition in a wide range of bacterial species. We compare Promotech’s performance with the performance of five other promoter prediction methods. Promotech outperforms these other programs in terms of area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) or precision at the same level of recall. Promotech is available at https://github.com/BioinformaticsLabAtMUN/PromoTech .