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CRISPRDetect: A flexible algorithm to define CRISPR arrays.
BMC genomics - 17 May 2016
Biswas Ambarish, Staals Raymond H J, Morales Sergio E, Fineran Peter C, Brown Chris M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) RNAs provide the specificity for noncoding RNA-guided adaptive immune defence systems in prokaryotes. CRISPR arrays consist of repeat sequences separated by specific spacer sequences. CRISPR arrays have previously been identified in a large proportion of prokaryotic genomes. However, currently available detection algorithms do not...
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