[mira_talk] Re: palindromes
- From: Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:15:25 +0100
On Mittwoch 24 November 2010 Peter wrote:
> > Thanks - I knew that, but the palindromic aspect seems to go quite a
> > bit beyond just being repetitive.
> It could be biologically relevant, inverted repeats or something. Do you
> have any reason to expect that kind of thing?
> Or it might be an artefact, possibly from WGA?
> Do any of the individual reads support the palindromes? That would
> suggest it isn't just an assembly error.
Palindromes (at least shorter ones) are not that terribly infrequent,
palindromes of several hundreds or even thousands of bases are much less
frequent, but also occur.
No, MIRA does not distinguish between palindromes and other types of repeats
... they're just repeats (and thus an annoyance).
B.
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