TWINSCAN

Description

twinscan website

Twinscan/N-SCAN is WUSTL Brent lab's suite of software for gene-structure prediction. Twinscan is currently available for Mammals, Caenorhabditis (worm), Dicot plants, and Cryptococci. N-SCAN is available for human and Drosophila (fruitfly).

• TWINSCAN - twinscan variable for base directory

Environment Modules

Run module spider twinscan to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

• HPC_TWINSCAN_DIR - installation directory
• HPC_TWINSCAN_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses twinscan you have to cite it as follows:

• Brent, M. R. (2008). Steady progress and recent breakthroughs in the accuracy of automated genome annotation. Nature Reviews Genetics, 9(1), 62–73. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2220
• Brent, M. R. (2007). How does eukaryotic gene prediction work? Nature Biotechnology, 25(8), 883–885. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0807-883
• Gross, S. S., & Brent, M. R. (2006). Using multiple alignments to improve gene prediction. Journal of Computational Biology, 13(2), 379–393. https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2006.13.379

Categories

biology, genomics