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Evaluating the protein coding potential of exonized transposable element sequences

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

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

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

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, 2:31doi: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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