MaskerAid : a performance enhancement to RepeatMasker

نویسندگان

  • Joseph A. Bedell
  • Ian Korf
  • Warren Gish
چکیده

UNLABELLED Identifying and masking repetitive elements is usually the first step when analyzing vertebrate genomic sequence. Current repeat identification software is sensitive but slow, creating a costly bottleneck in large-scale analyses. We have developed MaskerAid, a software enhancement to RepeatMasker that increased the speed of masking more than 30-fold at the most sensitive setting. AVAILABILITY On request from the authors (see http://sapiens.wustl.edu/MaskerAid). CONTACT [email protected]

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Bioinformatics

دوره 16 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000