Censor - A program for identification and elimination of repetitive elements from DNA sequences

被引:331
作者
Jurka, J
Klonowski, P
Dagman, V
Pelton, P
机构
[1] Linus Pauling Inst. of Sci. and Med., Palo Alto, CA 94306
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COMPUTERS & CHEMISTRY | 1996年 / 20卷 / 01期
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10.1016/S0097-8485(96)80013-1
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
摘要
CENSOR is a program designed to identify and eliminate fragments of DNA sequences homologous to any chosen reference sequences, in particular to repetitivte elements. CENSOR is based on two principal algorithms of Smith & Waterman (1981) [J. Mol. Biol. 147, 195] and Wilbur & Lipman (1983) [Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 726]. It includes several pre-set sensitivity levels based on both biological and statistical criteria which help to distinguish between aligned pairs of homologous and non-homologous sequences. CENSOR has been implemented in C/C + + in the SUN/UNIX environment.
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