Genomics involves the study of the genome, the complete DNA sequence, of organisms. While genomic sequence data has historically been sparse due to the technical difficulty in sequencing a piece of DNA, the number of available sequences is growing exponentially.[4] However, while raw data is becoming increasingly available and accessible, the biological interpretation of this data is occurring at a much slower pace.[5] Therefore, there is an increasing need for the development of machine learning systems that can automatically determine the location of protein-encoding genes within a given DNA sequence.[5] This is a problem in computational biology known as gene prediction.