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To evaluate and compare the performance, accuracy, and computational requirements of six widely used ab initio repeat-finding tools without prior sequence homology data.

February 16, 2008Nucleic Acids ResearchOpen Access

Empirical comparison of ab initio repeat finding programs

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To evaluate and compare the performance, accuracy, and computational requirements of six widely used ab initio repeat-finding tools without prior sequence homology data.
Conducted side-by-side evaluations of six widely used ab initio repeat-finding programs using sequence data from rice chromosome 12.
Assessed programs based on execution run time, detection of known repeats, ability to identify novel repeats, classification of repeat types, and compactness of repeat family models.
Computational tools exhibited profound performance disparities, ranging from labeling virtually the entire chromosome as repetitive to failing to identify almost any repeats.
Programs identifying comparable total numbers of repeats demonstrated marked differences in the classification and diversity of repeat families discovered.
ReAS and RepeatScout demonstrated the strongest overall utility for the analysis of raw sequence reads and assembled genomic contigs, respectively.

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Benchmarking study reveals profound performance differences among six ab initio repeat finders on rice chromosome 12, highlighting ReAS and RepeatScout as the most effective tools.

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Saha et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9375519d7c8e97507a77c8 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn064

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Benchmarking study reveals profound performance differences among six ab initio repeat finders on rice chromosome 12, highlighting ReAS and RepeatScout as the most effective tools.

Empirical comparison of ab initio repeat finding programs

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