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CRISPRDetect: A flexible algorithm to define CRISPR arrays

2016; BioMed Central; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12864-016-2627-0

ISSN

1471-2164

Autores

Ambarish Biswas, Raymond H.J. Staals, Sergio E. Morales, Peter C. Fineran, Chris M. Brown,

Tópico(s)

Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Resumo

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) RNAs provide the specificity for noncoding RNA-guided adaptive immune defence systems in prokaryotes. CRISPR arrays consist of repeat sequences separated by specific spacer sequences. CRISPR arrays have previously been identified in a large proportion of prokaryotic genomes. However, currently available detection algorithms do not utilise recently discovered features regarding CRISPR loci.

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