Gene discovery

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Are there any tools available which will look at reference sequence and list out all the possible locations that can be potentially genes? or alternatively is there a tool that can take a sequence as input and predict if it can be a gene?

[kbradnam]

I think you are really talking about 'ab initio' gene prediction (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_prediction) and there are a lot of tools that can do this.

Maybe Maker could be useful to you: http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html

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I think you are really talking about 'ab initio' gene prediction (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_prediction) and there are a lot of tools that can do this.

Maybe Maker could be useful to you: http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html

kbradnam, Thanks a ton for this real quick reply.. This is exactly what I am looking for. Has anyone run these tools on entire human reference say hg18 or hg19?

[rhinoceros]

Has anyone run these tools on entire human reference say hg18 or hg19?

Almost certainly yes.