An improved approach for reconstructing consensus repeats from short sequence reads

Abstract Background Repeat elements are important components of most eukaryotic genomes. Most existing tools for repeat analysis rely either on high quality reference genomes or existing repeat libraries. Thus, it is still challenging to do repeat analysis for species with highly repetitive or compl...

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Main Authors: Chong Chu, Jingwen Pei, Yufeng Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4920-6