Title

MfSAT: Detect simple sequence repeats in viral genomes 

Authors

Ming Chen^{2, 3}, Zhongyang Tan¹*, Guangming Zeng^{2, 3}

Affiliation

¹College of Biology, State Key Laboratary for Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; ²College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; ³Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China

Email

zhongyang@hnu.cn; *Corresponding author
 

Article Type

Software

Date

Received April 05, 2011; Accepted April 25, 2011; Published May 07, 2011

Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are ubiquitous short tandem repeats, which are associated with various regulatory mechanisms and have been found in viral genomes. Herein, we develop MfSAT (Multi-functional SSRs Analytical Tool), a new powerful tool which can fast identify SSRs in multiple short viral genomes and then automatically calculate the numbers and proportions of various SSR types (mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta- and hexanucleotide repeats). Furthermore, it also can detect codon repeats and report the corresponding amino acid.

Keywords

comparative genomics, simple sequence repeat, software, microsatellite, codon repeat.

Citation

Chen et al. Bioinformation 6(4): 171-172 (2011)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.