Database of Periodic DNA Regions in Major Genomes.
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SUBMITTER: Frenkel FE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5274682 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Database of Periodic DNA Regions in Major Genomes.
Frenkel Felix E FE Korotkova Maria A MA Korotkov Eugene V EV
BioMed research international 20170115
<i>Summary</i>. We analyzed several prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes looking for the periodicity sequences availability and employing a new mathematical method. The method envisaged using the random position weight matrices and dynamic programming. Insertions and deletions were allowed inside periodicities, thus adding a novelty to the results we obtained. A periodicity length, one of the key periodicity features, varied from 2 to 50 nt. Totally over 60,000 periodicity sequences were found in ...[more]
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