Hi Adrian,

I'd like to mention one more track in the Variation and Repeats group that is 
more specific to tandem repeats: Simple Repeats.  In the table browser, after 
selecting the Simple Repeats track, you can create a filter with period <= 3 
which will return repeats with repeating sequences of 1, 2 or 3 bases.  They 
may not be completely pure since the algorithm tolerates some divergence (as 
does RepeatMasker I think), but you can get some idea of how pure they are from 
some of the fields such as A, C, G and T counts.  

Angie

----- Original Message -----
> From: "robert kuhn" <[email protected]>
> To: "Adrian Johnson" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:32:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Genome] finding polymer region
> Hello, Adrian,
> 
> You can use the Short Match Track on the Genome Browser
> to visualize the locations of a short repeat. Click on
> the link in the first track group below the main graphic
> and type in the sequence (minimum of 2 bases). This only
> works for one sequence at a time.
> 
> If you are looking for a file of coordinates (which could
> be used as a custom track to visualize), use the Table
> Browser.
> 
> group: Variation and Repeats
> track: Repeat Masker
> table (the only choice): rmsk
> filter: repName does match: (TGG)n OR (TA)n [for example]
> [submit]
> 
> output format: selected fields from primary and related tables
> 
> then choose the info you desire: genoName, genoStart, genoEnd
> will give the coordinates, repName will give the sequence.
> [get output]
> 
> Here is sample output form this queryon hg19:
> 
> #filter: (rmsk.repName = '(TA)n' OR rmsk.repName = 'OR' OR
> rmsk.repName
> = '(TGG)n')
> #genoName genoStart genoEnd repName repClass
> chr1 16252908 16252959 (TA)n Simple_repeat
> chr1 96730871 96731529 (TA)n Simple_repeat
> chr1 109313990 109314373 (TA)n Simple_repeat
> chr1 112590708 112590862 (TA)n Simple_repeat
> chr1 227147684 227147967 (TGG)n Simple_repeat
> chr1 16712 16749 (TGG)n Simple_repeat
> 
> best wishes, and thanks for using the Genome Browser,
> 
> --b0b kuhn
> ucsc genome bioinformatics group
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/19/2012 10:26 AM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> > Hi:
> > Using genomebrowser is it possible to find homopolymer regions in
> > DNA.
> >
> > I am interested in finding homopolyers of one base of 2 or 3 bases.
> >
> > Is there a way to find such instances and if not, do you suggest any
> > other tool.
> >
> > thank you in advance.
> >
> > -Adrian
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