Application of learning techniques to splicing site recognition.

Most genes of eukaryotic genomes are disrupted by introns. The application of a learning technique which uses both statistic and syntactic analysis lead to the establishment of logical rules enabling the recognition of intron/exon junctions between uncoding and coding sequences. The rules were tested on rat actin gene sequences containing some or all of the introns and 50 exon nucleotides on either side of the intron. The results show good recognition of the excision site. This recognition is more ambiguous when the sequence is short; for the acceptor sequence it presents a good selection. The learning achieved with both the donor and acceptor sequence does not lead to recognition. This result indicates that it is not the relationship between donor and acceptor sites in the same intron which determines sequence selection or the splicing mechanism.

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