Fast and global detection of periodic sequence repeats in large genomic resources.

ABSTRACT: Periodically repeating DNA and protein elements are involved in various important biological events including genomic evolution, gene regulation, protein complex formation, and immunity. Notably, the currently used genome editing tools such as ZFNs, TALENs, and CRISPRs are also all associated with periodically repeating biomolecules of natural organisms. Despite the biological importance of periodically repeating sequences and the expectation that new genome editing modules could be discovered from such periodical repeats, no software that globally detects such structured elements in large genomic resources in a high-throughput and unsupervised manner has been developed. We developed new software, SPADE (Search for Patterned DNA Elements), that exhaustively explores periodic DNA and protei

SUBMITTER: Mori H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6344855 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature