title: dAPE: a web server to detect homorepeats and follow their evolution.
abstract: Homorepeats are low complexity regions consisting of repetitions of a single amino acid residue. There is no current consensus on the minimum number of residues needed to define a functional homorepeat, nor even if mismatches are allowed. Here we present dAPE, a web server that helps following the evolution of homorepeats based on orthology information, using a sensitive but tunable cutoff to help in the identification of emerging homorepeats.
  
  
  
  dAPE can be accessed from http://cbdm-01.zdv.uni-mainz.de/∼munoz/polyx .
  
  
  
  munoz@uni-mainz.de.
  
  
  
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mier
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Andrade-Navarro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D020449:Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software