tPatternHunter: gapped, fast and sensitive translated homology search

  • Authors:
  • Derek Kisman;Ming Li;Bin Ma;Li Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Bioinformatics Solutions Inc. 145 Columbia St West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3L2;School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 5B7;Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 5B7

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Summary: New ideas, spaced seeds and gapped alignment before 6-frame translation are implemented for translated homology search in tPatternHunter. The new software compares favorably with tBLASTx. Availability: The software is free to academics at http://www.bioinformaticssolutions.com/downloads/ph-academic/ Contact: bma@csd.uwo.ca