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Adv Appl Bioinform Chem. 2009;2:23-35. doi: 10.2147/aabc.s4744. Epub 2009 Feb 08.

An online conserved SSR discovery through cross-species comparison.

Advances and applications in bioinformatics and chemistry : AABC

Tun-Wen Pai, Chien-Ming Chen, Meng-Chang Hsiao, Ronshan Cheng, Wen-Shyong Tzou, Chin-Hua Hu

Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Republic of China.

PMID: 21918613 PMCID: PMC3169944 DOI: 10.2147/aabc.s4744

Abstract

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) play important roles in gene regulation and genome evolution. Although there exist several online resources for SSR mining, most of them only extract general SSR patterns without providing functional information. Here, an online search tool, CG-SSR (Comparative Genomics SSR discovery), has been developed for discovering potential functional SSRs from vertebrate genomes through cross-species comparison. In addition to revealing SSR candidates in conserved regions among various species, it also combines accurate coordinate and functional genomics information. CG-SSR is the first comprehensive and efficient online tool for conserved SSR discovery.

Keywords: comparative genomics; conserved region; functional SSR; gene ontology; genome; microsatellites

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