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Reverse Transcriptase Copy Number

Anyone know of a data source that would provide information on how many copies there are of reverse transcriptase in the human genome. (i.e. from Lines/Sines etc ).

Ideally 2 numbers, the number complete and the number truncated.

I feel that this info should be available some-place but I have not found been able to find it.

Any ideas? Or is it BLAST time?

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updated by Vikas Bansal Vikas Bansal • written by Alastair Kerr Alastair Kerr

Do you mean the number of SINE, Lines etc in genome?

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written by Vikas Bansal Vikas Bansal

Almost, the problem is that not all contain an intact reverse transcriptase. Thanks for your answer though as it is a reasonable approximation

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I am not sure if this is what you want. If you want information about Lines, Sines etc, I think RepeatMasker is the good option and for humans (also for some other species) the data is already present in UCSC. Also a very good review by Todd and Steven on Repetitive DNA and next-generation sequencing: computational challenges and solutions is given here. I pasted a table from their paper which is taken from RepeatMasker annotation itself.

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