The CRISPRdb database and tools to display CRISPRs and to generate dictionaries of spacers and repeats
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In Archeae and Bacteria, the repeated elements called CRISPRs for "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" are believed to participate in the defence against viruses. Short sequences called spacers are st...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-05-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/172 |