Title page for ETD etd-11162007-153602

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Warren, Andrew Scott

Author's Email Address

anwarren@vt.edu

URN

etd-11162007-153602

Title

Towards a Genome Reverse Compiler

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Computer Science

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Setubal, Joao Carlos	Committee Chair
Heath, Lenwood S.	Committee Member
Tyler, Brett M.	Committee Member

Keywords

gene function
genome annotation
gene finding

Date of Defense

2007-11-05

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

The Genome Reverse Compiler (GRC) is an annotation tool for prokaryotic genomes. Its
name and philosophy are based on analogy with a high-level programming language compiler.
In this analogy, the genome is a program in a certain low-level language that humans cannot
understand. Given the sequence of any prokaryotic genome, GRC produces its corresponding
"high-level program"--its annotation. GRC works in a completely automatic manner, using
standard input and output formats. The goal is to provide an open-source, easy-to-run, very
efficient annotation program.

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