Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 16, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(13):1536-1537; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn234
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Swelfe: a detector of internal repeats in sequences and structures
1UPMC Univ Paris 06, Atelier de BioInformatique, F75005 Paris and 2Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics; CNRS, URA2171, F75015 Paris, France
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Summary: Intragenic duplications of genetic material have important biological roles because of their protein sequence and structural consequences. We developed Swelfe to find internal repeats at three levels. Swelfe quickly identifies statistically significant internal repeats in DNA and amino acid sequences and in 3D structures using dynamic programming. The associated web server also shows the relationships between repeats at each level and facilitates visualization of the results.
Availability: http://bioserv.rpbs.jussieu.fr/swelfe
Contact: annela{at}abi.snv.jussieu.fr
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Associate Editor: Burkhard Rost
Received on February 7, 2008; revised on May 13, 2008; accepted on May 14, 2008