title: Finding the region of pseudo-periodic tandem repeats in biological sequences.
abstract: The genomes of many species are dominated by short sequences repeated consecutively. It is estimated that over 10% of the human genome consists of tandemly repeated sequences. Finding repeated regions in long sequences is important in sequence analysis. We develop a software, LocRepeat, that finds regions of pseudo-periodic repeats in a long sequence. We use the definition of Li et al. 1 for the pseudo-periodic partition of a region and extend the algorithm that can select the repeated region from a given long sequence and give the pseudo-periodic partition of the region.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. liuxw@cs.cityu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Xiaowen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lusheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang