image: A workflow depicting the process of SSR discovery, DNA amplification, and read mapping. Once SSRs have been identified and mapped, that information can be exported as a SAM to SSRgenotyper to ...

In a paper published today in the peer-reviewed journal Molecules, Alan Herbert from InsideOutBio proposes that evolution can happen on a faster time scale than Darwin imagined. In fact, it happens in ...

There is evidence that tandem repeat sequences (TRS) could have essential roles in cell functioning processes. We aimed to detect and describe minisatellites contained in the sequences of a cDNA ...

Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a machine learning strategy that has shown the potential to predict cases of early-stage lung or liver cancers in humans, by ...

Satellite DNA is mainly present in heterochromatin or the tightly packed regions of chromosomes in centromeres, telomeres, and sometimes even in the euchromatin region (active region of the genome).