@article{Wu01042004,
author = {Wu, Jia Qian and Shteynberg, David and Arumugam, Manimozhiyan and Gibbs, Richard A. and Brent, Michael R.}, 
title = {Identification of Rat Genes by TWINSCAN Gene Prediction, RT–PCR, and Direct Sequencing},
volume = {14}, 
number = {4}, 
pages = {665-671}, 
year = {2004}, 
doi = {10.1101/gr.1959604}, 
abstract ={The publication of a draft sequence of a third mammalian genome—that of the rat—suggests a need to rethink genome annotation. New mammalian sequences will not receive the kind of labor-intensive annotation efforts that are currently being devoted to human. In this paper, we demonstrate an alternative approach: reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT–PCR) and direct sequencing based on dual-genome de novo predictions from TWINSCAN. We tested 444 TWINSCAN-predicted rat genes that showed significant homology to known human genes implicated in disease but that were partially or completely missed by methods based on protein-to-genome mapping. Using primers in exons flanking a single predicted intron, we were able to verify the existence of 59% of these predicted genes. We then attempted to amplify the complete predicted open reading frames of 136 genes that were verified in the single-intron experiment. Spliced sequences were amplified in 46 cases (34%). We conclude that this procedure for elucidating gene structures with native cDNA sequences is cost-effective and will become even more so as it is further optimized.}, 
URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/4/665.abstract}, 
eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/4/665.full.pdf+html}, 
journal = {Genome Research} 
}