Hi :-) Just wanted to say that it's amazing to think of employing FSM in Microsatellites scanning; which in my opinion as a computer information systems student would be a very difficult task due to the diversity , abanduncy and redundency of STR markers in living organism genomes in general and plants genome particularly. I'm working on something similar like that for my thesis, but instead of FSM I'm trying to involve some machine learning techniques to predict the functional annotation change caused by STR. Good luck with your STR-FSM ;-)