Prediction of transposable elements

Transposable Elements (TEs) play a fundamental role on the DNA sequences in eukariotic genomes. Their nature imply they form repetitive regions, which control the structure, rearrangement and regulatory functions inside our genome. With the new sequencing techniques and the lack of bioinformatic sof...

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Autores:
Jiménez Gacha, Stephannie
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/45395
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/45395
Palabra clave:
Transposones
Genómica
Bioinformática
Ingeniería
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description
Summary:Transposable Elements (TEs) play a fundamental role on the DNA sequences in eukariotic genomes. Their nature imply they form repetitive regions, which control the structure, rearrangement and regulatory functions inside our genome. With the new sequencing techniques and the lack of bioinformatic software that is capable of predicting TEs, arise the problem of detecting these sequences. Using an approach based on kmer search on an FM-Index we were able to indentify type I retrotransposons. Finally, we measured the effectivity of our proposed method in the Saccharomyces genome database obtaining 68.19% of precision, 58.82% of recall and 63.15% of F-measure. A further evaluation is needed using other genomes that vary their composition of repetitive elements to determine the performance of the proposed method.