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Gene Unscrambler for detangling scrambled genes in ciliates
Andre R O Cavalcanti1, Laura F Landweber
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. acavalca@princeton.edu
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|January 31, 2004
Abstract
Unlabelled:
Scrambled genes are surprisingly common in some species of ciliates. Until now there was no software available to analyze automatically these genes. We present here a program that can automatically align the macronuclear and micronuclear forms of a gene, outputting the location of the macronuclear destined segments and pointer sequences.
Availability:
A web version of the program is available free of charge and can be accessed at http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/GeneUnscrambler.htm