help: abstract genome - gene finder

[RaFTa]

lo all,

we've got an assignment from school to identify relevant parts of an
artificial genome, relevant parts being the genes.  we've searched on google
for gene-finding programs, but they always need the type of species that
genome belongs to...

does anybody know a program that can handle this problem?

we're informatics-student, so we dont really know a lot of the
biotechnology-world :)

any help would be greatly appreciated

greetz

Raf