title: Tandem repeats in complete bacterial genome sequences: sequence and structural analyses for comparative studies.
abstract: A series of complete bacterial genome sequences have recently become available and powerful methods have been developed for the identification of tandem repeats on a very large scale. It is thus possible to derive extensive comparative descriptions of such repeats at the level of complete genomes, as illustrated here for three different bacterial genomes: Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Such sequence analyses can be usefully complemented by structural characterisations of the repeats.
authors.affiliation: Unité de physico-chimie des macromolécules biologiques, (URA 1773 du CNRS), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. yeramian@pasteur.fr
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yeramian
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buc
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000737:chemistry; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012984:Software; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*