Abstract

In the process of analysing the four available complete archaeal genomes, we have noted that certain regions characterised as 'non-coding' exhibit significant sequence similarity to other protein sequences from Archaea and other species. Using established technology, we have identified a number of potential protein coding regions in these putative 'non-coding' regions. We have detected 524 such cases, of which 113 regions appear to code for proteins present in archaeal or other species, while the remaining 411 regions are mostly start/stop definition conflicts. Of the 113 protein coding regions, only 21 code for proteins with homologues of known function. The number of novel coding sequences identified herein amounts to 1. 5% of the total genome entries, while the conflicting cases represent an additional 5%. The observed differences between the four complete archaeal genomes seem to reflect disparate approaches to genome annotation. Genome sequence collections should be regularly checked to improve gene prediction by sequence similarity and greater effort is required to make gene definitions consistent across related species.

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