Identification of protein-coding regions in Arabidopsis thaliana genome based on quadratic discriminant analysis.

A new method (MZEF) for predicting internal coding exons in genomic DNA sequences has been developed. This method is based on a prediction algorithm that uses the quadratic discriminant function for multivariate statistical pattern recognition. With improved feature measures, an Arabidopsis thaliana-specific implementation of MZEF is completed and made available to the plant genome community.