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Repetitive sequences, be it amino acid or nucleotide, can encode information about functionality as well as the evolution of the sequence. Ubiquitous to the genomes of all living species, these repeats can vary in size (from one to several hundred nucleotides in length) as well as the number of copies. A number of computational tools have been developed for the identification and discovery of repetitive elements in protein and DNA sequences. Here we present a new software tool, the Monomer Identification and Isolation Program (MiIP). Although designed specifically for the detection of satellite sequence repeats (monomers) within centromeric DNA, the software is capable of detecting smaller micro- and minisatellites as well as amino acid repeats. Within this one tool, two options are available given a user-supplied sequence: (1) search for a particular user-defined monomer and (2) discover the occurrence of monomers ab initio.
MacOS and Linux versions of the GUI-based applica
