title: CENSOR--a program for identification and elimination of repetitive elements from DNA sequences.
abstract: CENSOR is a program designed to identify and eliminate fragments of DNA sequences homologous to any chosen reference sequences, in particular to repetitive elements. CENSOR is based on two principal algorithms of Smith & Waterman (1981) [J. Mol. Biol. 147, 195] and Wilbur & Lipman (1983) [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 726]. It includes several pre-set sensitivity levels based on both biological and statistical criteria which help to distinguish between aligned pairs of homologous and non-homologous sequences. CENSOR has been implemented in C/C + + in the SUN/UNIX environment.
authors.affiliation: Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jurka
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klonowski
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dagman
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pelton
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003201:Computers; D016208:Databases, Factual; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D012984:Software