The elusive short gene - an ensemble method for recognition for prokaryotic genome

► Reports a computational gene finding tool that specializes on short genes. ► the failure of standard gene finding tools on genes of length <400 nt. ► Reports 22 discriminate features for short genes recognition. ► Reports a soft computing classifier employing AdaBoost.M1 with random forests. ► Proposed tool gives 92.74% accuracy, 94.77% sensitivity and 90.06% specificity.