Repbase Structural Homology
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TSD
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Figure 4.1: Classification distribution for C. elegans repeats in Repbase
Overlapping repeats, in this case 9 repeats were classified by all three methods and the results also matched that of Repbase. This shows that several TEs have all characteristic properties but others exhibit only a single property. Here we have 64 repeats (57.65%) classified by more than one method and 47 repeats (42.35%) classified by only a single method. We note that even those repeats that were classified by only a single method also provided a classification that matched with that of Repbase. Hence, it is not a limiting factor when an element is classified by only one method. The following table shows the number of elements and the percentage of those repeats classified by various methods. A majority of those repeats; 24.19% were classified by the structural and TSD search and match with entries in Repbase.
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