MaskerAid: a performance enhancement to RepeatMasker.
Identifying and masking repetitive elements is usually the first step when analyzing vertebrate genomic sequence. Current repeat identification software is sensitive but slow, creating a costly bottleneck in large-scale analyses. We have developed MaskerAid, a software enhancement to RepeatMasker that increased the speed of masking more than 30-fold at the most sensitive setting.


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On request from the authors (see http://sapiens.wustl.edu/MaskerAid).


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maskeraid@watson.wustl.edu
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Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020084:Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020086:Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements; D012984:Software