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Evaluating the protein coding potential of exonized transposable element sequences

Jittima Piriyapongsa1, Mark T Rutledge1, Sanil Patel1, Mark Borodovsky1,2,3 and I King Jordan1*

Author Affiliations

1 School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

2 Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

3 Division of Computational Science and Engineering at College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

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Biology Direct 2007, 2:31 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-31

Published: 26 November 2007

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Additional file 1:

TE-associated protein domains. This file contains the list of 124 Pfam domains associated with TEs.

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Additional file 2:

The GC composition of Alu-derived gene fragments. Scatter plots of %G+C of second (GC2) versus third (GC3) codon positions for Alu-derived gene fragments (pink) non Alu TE-derived gene fragments (red) and non-TE associated genes (green) are shown along with linear regression trends and confidence interval.

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