Tandem repeats discovery service (TReaDS) applied to finding novel cis-acting factors in repeat expansion diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tandem repeats are multiple duplications of substrings in the DNA that occur contiguously, or at a short distance, and may involve some mutations (such as substitutions, insertions, and deletions). Tandem repeats have been extensively studied also for their association with the class of repeat expansion diseases (mostly affecting the nervous system). Comparative studies on the output of different tools for finding tandem repeats highlighted significant differences among the sets of detected tandem repeats, while many authors pointed up how critical it is the right choice of parameters.

Results

In this paper we present TReaDS - Tandem Repeats Discovery Service, a tandem repeat meta search engine. TReaDS forwards user requests to several state of the art tools for f

SUBMITTER: Pellegrini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3303744 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature