ModuleOrganizer: detecting modules in families of transposable elements

Background: Most known eukaryotic genomes contain mobile copied elements called transposable elements. In some species, these elements account for the majority of the genome sequence. They have been subject to many mutations and other genomic events (copies, deletions, captures) during transposition. The identification of these transformations remains a difficult issue. The study of families of transposable elements is generally founded on a multiple alignment of their sequences, a critical step that is adapted to transposons containing mostly localized nucleotide mutations. Many transposons that have lost their protein-coding capacity have undergone more complex rearrangements, needing the development of more complex methods in order to characterize the architecture of sequence variations. Results: In this study, we introduce the concept of a transposable element module, a flexible motif present in at least two sequences of a family of transposable elements and built on a succession ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Sébastien Tempel, Christine Rousseau, Fariza Tahi, Jacques Nicolas
• Keywords: BMCBI 2010, Mobile Copied Elements, Sequences, Transposable Element