Repseek, a tool to retrieve approximate from large DNA sequences

The importance of genome redundancy has been strongly emphasized in the field of genome dynamics and evolution as well as in medical biology. A repeat is a sequence present twice or more with a high degree of similarity within a larger sequence (e.g. a chromosome) or set of sequences (e.g. a genome with several chromosomes). Each instance of the repeated sub-sequence is called a ’copy’ of the repeat. We use the term ”duplication” to denote any...