Long inverted repeats (LIRs) are evolutionarily and functionally important structures in genomes because of their involvement in RNA interference, DNA recombination, and gene duplication. Identification of LIRs is highly complicated when mismatches and indels between the repeats are permitted. Long inverted repeat explorer (Lirex) was developed and introduced here. Written in Java, Lirex provides a user-friendly interface and allows users to specify LIR searching criteria, such as length of the region, as well as pattern and size of the repeats. Recombinogenic LIRs can be selected on the basis of mismatch rate and internal spacer size from identified LIRs. Lirex, as a cross-platform tool to identify LIRs in a genome, may assist in designing following experiments to explore the function of LIRs. Our tool can identify more LIRs than other LIR searching tools. For more details, please refer to Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 2017, 15:141-146 by Y. Wang and J.M. Huang.

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  • Long inverted repeats
  • recombinogenic LIRs
  • mismatch rate
  • user interface
  • user-defined criteria

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

User Interface

Java AWT

Programming Language

Java

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2019-07-20
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