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They are of high medical and industrial interest, due to their enrichment in virulence factors, some antimicrobial resistance genes and adaptive metabolic pathways. The development of more sensitive but precise prediction tools, using either sequence composition-based methods or comparative genomics, is needed as large-scale analyses of microbial genomes increase.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>IslandPath-DIMOB, a leading GI prediction tool in the IslandViewer webserver, has now been significantly improved by modifying both the decision algorithm to determine sequence composition biases, and the underlying database of HMM profiles for associated mobility genes. The accuracy of IslandPath-DIMOB and other major software has been assessed using a reference GI dataset predicted by comparative genomics, plus a manually curated dataset from literature review. Compared to the previous version (v0.2.0), this IslandPath-DIMOB v1.0.0 achieves 11.7% and 5.3% increase in recall and precision, respectively. IslandPath-DIMOB has the highest Matthews correlation coefficient among individual prediction methods tested, combining one of the highest recall measures (46.9%) at high precision (87.4%). The only method with higher recall had notably lower precision (55.1%). This new IslandPath-DIMOB v1.0.0 will facilitate more accurate studies of GIs, including their key roles in microbial adaptability of medical, environmental and industrial interest.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>IslandPath-DIMOB v1.0.0 is freely available through the IslandViewer webserver {{http:\/\/www.pathogenomics.sfu.ca\/islandviewer\/}} and as standalone software {{https:\/\/github.com\/brinkmanlab\/islandpath\/}} under the GNU-GPLv3.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,22]],"date-time":"2018-02-22T12:23:43Z","timestamp":1519302223000},"page":"2161-2167","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":192,"title":["Improved genomic island predictions with IslandPath-DIMOB"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Claire","family":"Bertelli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fiona S L","family":"Brinkman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051604093930400_bty095-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5255","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkp576","article-title":"Detection of genomic islands via segmental genome heterogeneity","volume":"37","author":"Arvey","year":"2009","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023051604093930400_bty095-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"W30","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkx343","article-title":"IslandViewer 4: expanded prediction of genomic islands for larger-scale datasets","volume":"45","author":"Bertelli","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023051604093930400_bty095-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"803","DOI":"10.1111\/1469-0691.12217","article-title":"Rapid bacterial genome sequencing: methods and applications in clinical microbiology","volume":"19","author":"Bertelli","year":"2013","journal-title":"Clin. 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