MITE-Hunter: a program for discovering miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements from genomic sequences
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Abstract
Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are a special type of Class 2 non-autonomous transposable element (TE) that are abundant in the non-coding regions of the genes of many plant and animal species. The accurate identification of MITEs has been a challenge for existing programs because they lack coding sequences and, as such, evolve very rapidly. Because of their importance to gene and genome evolution, we developed MITE-Hunter, a program pipeline that can identify MITEs as well as other small Class 2 non-autonomous TEs from genomic DNA data sets. The output of MITE-Hunter is composed of consensus TE sequences grouped into families that can be used as a library file for homology-based TE…
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- Biology
- Transposable element
- Genome
- Mite
- Genetics
- Inverted repeat
- False positive paradox
- Computational biology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Life in Land
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