CLOVERS

High-Performance Protein-Coding Gene Recognition System

Version 1.1.0 — TUBIC, Tianjin University

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Ab initio Gene Prediction
Z-curve-based ab initio gene recognition method with higher accuracy
Translation Start Revision
Unsupervised revision of translation start sites via advanced TriTISA+
Overlapping Detection
Discovering overlapping genes that were overlooked by other gene finders
High Performance
Processing speed 4 times that of Prodigal powered by OpenMP and AVX/FMA
Supported Input Formats
FASTA (.fa, .fasta) GenBank (.gb, .gbk) EMBL (.embl)

Clovers is a powerful gene finder developed by the Tianjin University Bioinformatics Center (TUBIC). It combines biology-rule-based methods, semi-supervised machine learning and ribosomal binding site analysis to deliver state-of-the-art gene prediction for bacteria, archaea and phage genomes.