Question

FGENESB is a web-based program that is also based on fifth-order HMMs for detecting coding regions.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

My doubt stems from Categories of Gene Prediction Programs in chapter Gene and Promoter Prediction of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) True

The explanation: The program is specifically trained for bacterial sequences. It uses the Vertibi algorithm to find an optimal match for the query sequence with the intrinsic model. A linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is used to further distinguish coding signals from non-coding signals.