Repetitive Structures in Biological Sequences: Algorithms and Applications

• Main Author: Marco Pellegrini (auth)
• Other Authors: Alberto Magi (auth), Costas S. Iliopoulos (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Algorithms; Repetitive structures; next generation sequencing; tandem repeats; transposable elements
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Repetitive structures in biological sequences are emerging as an active focus of research and the unifying concept of "repeatome" (the ensemble of knowledge associated with repeating structures in genomic/proteomic sequences) has been recently proposed in order to highlight several converg...