Method
Boosting with stumps for predicting transcription start sites
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* Corresponding author: Michael Q Zhang mzhang@cshl.edu
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA
Genome Biology 2007, 8:R17 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-r17
Published: 2 February 2007Abstract
Promoter prediction is a difficult but important problem in gene finding, and it is critical for elucidating the regulation of gene expression. We introduce a new promoter prediction program, CoreBoost, which applies a boosting technique with stumps to select important small-scale as well as large-scale features. CoreBoost improves greatly on locating transcription start sites. We also demonstrate that by further utilizing some tissue-specific information, better accuracy can be achieved.