dAPE: a web server to detect homorepeats and follow their evolution.

Authors :: Mier P
Andrade-Navarro MA
Source :: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) [Bioinformatics] 2017 Apr 15; Vol. 33 (8), pp. 1221-1223.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Summary: Homorepeats are low complexity regions consisting of repetitions of a single amino acid residue. There is no current consensus on the minimum number of residues needed to define a functional homorepeat, nor even if mismatches are allowed. Here we present dAPE, a web server that helps following the evolution of homorepeats based on orthology information, using a sensitive but tunable cutoff to help in the identification of emerging homorepeats.<br />Availability and Implementation: dAPE can be accessed from http://cbdm-01.zdv.uni-mainz.de/∼munoz/polyx .<br />Contact: munoz@uni-mainz.de.<br />Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<br /> (© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press.)