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  • Molecular Biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Identifying telomere motifs in new genomes is traditionally laborious.
  • Existing heuristic methods for telomere detection are time-consuming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present an efficient methodology for rapid de novo identification of telomere motifs.
  • To validate a new approach using next-generation sequencing (NGS), de novo sequence repeat finder (SERF), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing SERF for exhaustive analysis of raw NGS reads or assembled contigs.
  • Applying SERF for rapid de novo detection of conserved tandem repeats.
  • Validating the method with known telomere motifs from *Ipheion uniflorum* and *Allium cepa*.

Main Results:

  • SERF successfully identified known telomere motifs in validated plant species.
  • The methodology proved efficient in investigating telomere motifs in additional plant species.
  • Combined with FISH, SERF enabled the identification of previously unknown telomere motifs.

Conclusions:

  • The presented NGS-SERF-FISH methodology offers an efficient alternative to conventional approaches.
  • This method significantly accelerates the discovery of telomere motifs across diverse genomes.
  • SERF is a powerful tool for de novo identification of conserved tandem repeats, including telomeric sequences.