Lirex: A Package for Identification of Long Inverted Repeats in Genomes
- Author:
Wang YONG
1
;
Huang JIAO-MEI
Author Information
1. Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering
- Keywords:
Lirex;
Inverted repeats;
Recombination;
Stem-loop;
Mismatch rate
- From:
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
2017;15(2):141-146
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Long inverted repeats (LIRs) are evolutionarily and functionally important structures in genomes because of their involvement in RNA interference, DNA recombination, and gene dupli-cation. Identification of LIRs is highly complicated when mismatches and indels between the repeats are permitted. Long inverted repeat explorer (Lirex) was developed and introduced in this report. Written in Java, Lirex provides a user-friendly interface and allows users to specify LIR searching criteria, such as length of the region, as well as pattern and size of the repeats. Recom-binogenic LIRs can be selected on the basis of mismatch rate and internal spacer size from identified LIRs. Lirex, as a cross-platform tool to identify LIRs in a genome, may assist in designing following experiments to explore the function of LIRs. Our tool can identify more LIRs than other LIR searching tools. Lirex is publicly available at http://124.16.219.129/Lirex.
