Question

Which of the following is untrue about Glimmer?

(a) It stands for Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler

(b) It is a UNIX program from TIGR

(c) It does not necessarily use   the IMM algorithm

(d) It is used to  predict potential coding regions

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Answer 1

The correct option is (c) It does not necessarily use   the IMM algorithm

Best explanation: The computation consists of two steps, namely model building and gene prediction. The model building involves training by the input sequence, which optimizes the parameters of the model. In an actual gene prediction, the overlapping frames are “flagged” to alert the user for further inspection. Glimmer also has a variant, GlimmerM, for eukaryotic gene prediction.