Prediction and Phylogenetic Analysis of Mammalian Short Interspersed Elements (SINEs)
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The presence of repetitive elements can create serious problems for sequence analysis, especially in the case of homology searches in nucleotide sequence databases. Repetitive elements should be treated carefully by using special programs and databases. In this paper, various aspects of SINE (short interspersed repetitive element) identification, analysis and evolution are discussed.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Briefings in bioinformatics
دوره 1 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000