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COMPUTATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages 200-206Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2016.05.001
Keywords
Pathogenicity islands; Sequence composition; Genome segmentation; Comparative genomics; Outlier detection
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Clusters of genes acquired by lateral gene transfer in microbial genomes, are broadly referred to as genomic islands (GIs). GIs often carry genes important for genome evolution and adaptation to niches, such as genes involved in pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. Therefore, GI prediction has gradually become an important part of microbial genome analysis. Despite inherent difficulties in identifying GIs, many computational methods have been developed and show good performance. In this mini-review, we first summarize the general challenges in predicting GIs. Then we group existing GI detection methods by their input, briefly describe representative methods in each group, and discuss their advantages as well as limitations. Finally, we look into the potential improvements for better GI prediction. (C) 2016 Lu, Leong. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
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