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diff --git a/biology/glimmer/DESCR b/biology/glimmer/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f21dd550ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/biology/glimmer/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler) is a system for finding +genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea. +Glimmer uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions +and distinguish them from noncoding DNA. The IMM approach uses a combination +of Markov models from 1st through 8th-order, weighting each model according to +its predictive power. |