Hi..Can we use repeatmasker to find and mask the repeats in bacteria? If not, then what is the alternative ??
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I would say: yes, you can use the program, but there maybe some alternative:
http://www.repeatmasker.org/cgi-bin/WEBRepeatMasker
http://www.repeatmasker.org/ - some details
http://sebastien.tempel.free.fr/Boulot/UsingRepeatMasker.pdf
Other tools - the alternative depends upon what exactly you need:
A field guide to whole-genome sequencing, assembly and annotation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.12178/full
Red: an intelligent, rapid, accurate tool for detecting repeats de-novo on the genomic scale
http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-015-0654-5
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