Looking for repeat motifs - ideas?
"Michael Nuhn" <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:31:50 +0100
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Hello, Everyone! I am looking for a program that can find short repeats with some mismatches and a certain distance between them. Something like this: TTTAAG GCGC TTTAAG where the actual sequence of the repeat (TTTAAG) is unknown in advance and may have mismatches to the repeat. Repeat finders I know about are optimized for searching for large repeats anywhere on the entire sequence. That would not be useful to me since it would create an abundance of matches like this: TTTAAG [ca. 300 000 bases here and then the second] TTTAAG. Others only look for tandem repeats, so they would find TTTAAG TTTAAG but not TTTAAG GCGC TTTAAG The closest thing I could find is the program rnabob. It is really cool, but rnabob seems only to be able to find inverted repeats, not normal repeats. Does anyone know a program that can solve my problem? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Michael. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Nuhn Bioinformatik Zentrum für Nanostrukturtechnologie und Molekularbiologische Technologie +49 (0)631 - 205 4334 [email protected] http://nbc3.biologie.uni-kl.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------