Gene Unscrambler for detangling scrambled genes in ciliates.

Cavalcanti, Andre R O; Landweber, Laura F · Bioinformatics · 2004

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Scrambled genes are surprisingly common in some species of ciliates. Until now there was no software available to analyze automatically these genes. We present here a program that can automatically align the macronuclear and micronuclear forms of a gene, outputting the location of the macronuclear destined segments and pointer sequences. A web version of the program is available free of charge and can be accessed at http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/GeneUnscrambler.htm

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