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 algorithm

tables results

 

Academic version of the algorithm

(it can be freely used, but please reference the above paper)
 

Sources downloads:

program STRING (version 1.1)
sample easy-to-use main

Example of use (mRNA for huntingtin):

input sequence
short output
long output
output table

Interactive use:

JSTRING
 

About Dynamical Genetics      

V. 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.

 

____Valerio . Parisi @ uniroma1 . it
 

Last updated: Feb 2019