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A software enhancement to RepeatMasker that increased the speed of masking more than 30-fold at the most sensitive setting. MaskerAid was developed under UNIX and is written in PERL.

Software type:
Package
Interface:
Command line interface
Restrictions to use:
None
Operating system:
Unix/Linux
Programming languages:
Perl
Computer skills:
Advanced
Stability:
Stable
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On request from the authors

Institution(s)

Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA

  • (Bedell et al., 2000) MaskerAid: a performance enhancement to RepeatMasker. Bioinformatics.
    PMID: 11159316
  • (Bergman and Quesneville, 2007) Discovering and detecting transposable elements in genome sequences. Briefings in bioinformatics.
    PMID: 17932080
  • (Anisimova et al., 2015) Statistical approaches to detecting and analyzing tandem repeats in genomic sequences. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology.
    PMID: 25853125
  • (Saha et al., 2008) Empirical comparison of ab initio repeat finding programs. Nucleic acids research.
    PMID: 18287116
  • (Lerat, 2010) Identifying repeats and transposable elements in sequenced genomes: how to find your way through the dense forest of programs. Heredity.
    PMID: 19935826
  • (Janicki et al., 2011) Bioinformatics and genomic analysis of transposable elements in eukaryotic genomes. Chromosome research.
    PMID: 21850457

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