From: Fast comparison of DNA sequences by oligonucleotide profiling
Type of analysis | Source | Target | Typical word sizes (K) | Typical ranges (R) | Examples |
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Oligonucleotide, microsatellite quantification, chaos game representation | Any DNA sequence | Same as Source | 1–8 | 1 | |
Degree of conservation within a repetitive sequence | Chromosome | Repetitive sequence | 10–14 | 1 | Suppl. Figs. 1A, 2 |
Variations in repetitive content | Two or more chromosomes | Repetitive sequence | 10–14 | 1 | Suppl. Fig. 3 |
Sequence localization | Short sequence | Chromosome | 1–14 | 103-106 | Suppl. Figs. 1B, 4 |
Degree of sequence conservation or changes in sequence complexity among chromosomes | Two or more chromosomes | One of the chromosomes | 12–14 | 1–105 | Suppl. Fig. 5 |
Detection of singular sequences | Two chromosomes | One of the chromosomes | 12–14 | 1 | See Ref. [19] |