BMC Genomics

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Tools for the identification of variable and potentially variable tandem repeats

Colm T O'Dushlaine1* and Denis C Shields2

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1 Bioinformatics Core, Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland

2 UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

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BMC Genomics 2006, 7:290 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-290

Published: 15 November 2006

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Additional File 1:

Incongruent results for VNTRfinder versus the method described by Denoeud et al. [1]. Dot-plots for 18 instances of differences in reported variability between the two methods in Neisseria meningitidis from a total of 3533 repeats matched between methods.

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