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- Title
A new method to compute K-mer frequencies and its application to annotate large repetitive plant genomes.
- Authors
Kurtz, Stefan; Narechania, Apurva; Stein, Joshua C; Ware, Doreen
- Abstract
The challenges of accurate gene prediction and enumeration are further aggravated in large genomes that contain highly repetitive transposable elements (TEs). Yet TEs play a substantial role in genome evolution and are themselves an important subject of study. Repeat annotation, based on counting occurrences of k-mers, has been previously used to distinguish TEs from low-copy genic regions; but currently available software solutions are impractical due to high memory requirements or specialization for specific user-tasks.
- Publication
BMC genomics, 2008, Vol 9, p517
- ISSN
1471-2164
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2164-9-517