TY - JOUR AU - Leclercq, Sébastien AU - Rivals, Eric AU - Jarne, Philippe PY - 2007 DA - 2007/04/18 TI - Detecting microsatellites within genomes: significant variation among algorithms JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 125 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Microsatellites are short, tandemly-repeated DNA sequences which are widely distributed among genomes. Their structure, role and evolution can be analyzed based on exhaustive extraction from sequenced genomes. Several dedicated algorithms have been developed for this purpose. Here, we compared the detection efficiency of five of them (TRF, Mreps, Sputnik, STAR, and RepeatMasker). SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-8-125 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-8-125 ID - Leclercq2007 ER -