Detecting microsatellites within genomes: significant variation among algorithms

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Microsatellites are short, tandemly-repeated DNA sequences which are widely distributed among genomes. Their structure, role and evolution can be analyzed based on exhaustive extraction from sequenced genomes. Several dedicated algor...

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Main Authors: Rivals Eric, Leclercq Sébastien, Jarne Philippe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/125