Abstract
Identifying the location and function of human genes in a long sequence of genome is difficult due to lack of sufficient information about genes. Experimental evidence has suggested that there exists strong correlation between CpG islands and genes immediately following them. Much research has been done to identify CpG islands in a DNA sequence using various models. In this chapter, we introduce two alternative models based on high order and variable order Markov chains. Compared with the popular models such as the first order Markov chain, HMM, and HMT, these two models are much easier to compute and have higher identification accuracies. One unsolved problem with the Markov model is that there is no way to decide the exact boundary point between CpG and non-CpG islands. In this chapter, we provide a novel tool to decide the boundary points using the sequential probability test. Sequential data from GeneBank are used for the experiments in this chapter.
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