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Tandem repeats
- satellites (spanning megabases of DNA, associated with heterochromatin)
- minisatellites (repeat units in the range 6-100 bp, spanning hundreds of base-pairs)
- microsatellites (repeat units in the range 1-5 bp, spanning a few tens of nucleotides).
Software Packages
- MUMer repeat-match : does not classify the repeats
- RepeatModeler
- RepeatScout
- RepeatMasker ; RepBase : mostly eukariotic genomes
- Microorganisms Tandem Repeats Database (Online,FR)
- CRISPRfinder (Online,FR); Article