articleBioinformaticsNov 22, 2007BRONZE OA

ARWEN: a program to detect tRNA genes in metazoan mitochondrial nucleotide sequences

DLDean LaslettBCBjörn Canbäck

Murdoch University

PubMed
Indexed incrossrefdoajpubmed

Abstract

MOTIVATION: Mitochondrial genomes encode their own transfer RNAs (tRNAs). These are often degenerate in sequence and structure compared to tRNAs in their bacterial ancestors. This is one of the reasons why current tRNA gene predictor programs perform poorly identifying mitochondrial tRNA genes. As a consequence there is a need for a new program with the specific aim of predicting these tRNAs. RESULTS: In this study, we present the software ARWEN that identifies tRNA genes in metazoan mitochondrial nucleotide sequences. ARWEN detects close to 100% of previously annotated genes. AVAILABILITY: An online version, software for download and test results are available at www.acgt.se/online.html

Citation impact

1,465
total citations
FWCI
4.44
Percentile
100%
References
7
Citations per year

Authors

2

Topics & keywords

Topics
Keywords
  • Transfer RNA
  • Gene
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Mitochondrial DNA
  • Genome
  • ENCODE
  • Computational biology
No related works found for this paper.

Funding