Search for Tandem Repeats in the First Chromosome from the Rice Genome

摘要

Using the RPWM method, we searched for tandem repeats of 2 to 50 nucleotides long in the rice genome. We compared the effectiveness of the RPWM method with Mreps, T-reks, Tandem Repeat Finder and ATR Hunter. About 70% of the tandem repeats found could not be found by other algorithms. The correlation of dispersed repeats and transposons with tandem repeats was studied in this work. We assumed that some of the dispersed repeats and transposons originated from tandem repeats.