This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| HMMs |
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) allow the integration of diverse sequence features into a coherent, probabilistic framework. For the task of gene identification, HMMs may include states modeling introns, exons, intergenic regions, start and stop codons, splice signals, polyadenyation signals and ribosomal binding sites. |