STRING: Search for Tandem Repeats IN Genomes
The algorithm is described in the paper:
V. Parisi, V. De Fonzo, F. Aluffi-Pentini.STRING: finding tandem repeats in DNA sequences.
Bioinformatics, Vol. 19 no. 14, 2003, Pages 1733-1738.
Supplementary material for the above paper:figure1 from an autoalignment (phase 1) to an alignment (phase 2)
figure2 flow-chart of the algorithmtables results
Academic version of the algorithm
(it can be freely used, but please reference the above paper)
Sources downloads:
Example of use (mRNA for huntingtin):
program STRING (version 1.1)
sample easy-to-use main
input sequence
short output
long output
output table
Interactive use:JSTRING
About Dynamical GeneticsV. De Fonzo, E. Bersani, F. Aluffi-Pentini, V. Parisi
A new look at the challenging world of tandem repeats.
Medical Hypotheses,Vol: 54, Issue: 5 , May, 2000.
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Last updated: Feb 2019