Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL

Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) occurs in some fungal taxa, preferentially mutating C:G nucleotide pairs that reside within repetitive DNA and converting them to T:A. Within the taxon Pezizomycotina, RIP is biased towards mutation of CpA dinucleotides. RIP is an important feature of fungal genom...

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Main Author: Hane, James
Other Authors: M. van den Berg
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42312
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description Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) occurs in some fungal taxa, preferentially mutating C:G nucleotide pairs that reside within repetitive DNA and converting them to T:A. Within the taxon Pezizomycotina, RIP is biased towards mutation of CpA dinucleotides. RIP is an important feature of fungal genomes as its distribution and extent have important implications for genome evolution. Early studies of RIP did not have access to vast amounts of genome sequence information; therefore RIP was measured within one or a handful of repeat sequences using ratios of dinucleotide frequencies. However as whole-genome sequences became available for fungi, it became possible to predict the repeat content of a whole genome and calculate RIP mutation across a large number of sequences from multiple repeat families. The software tool RIPCAL was developed for this purpose and since its release has become widely used in fungal genome analysis pipelines.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-423122023-02-27T07:34:28Z Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL Hane, James M. van den Berg K. Maruthachalam Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) Neurospora crassa Fungal genome analysis RIPCAL Repetitive DNA Genome evolution Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) occurs in some fungal taxa, preferentially mutating C:G nucleotide pairs that reside within repetitive DNA and converting them to T:A. Within the taxon Pezizomycotina, RIP is biased towards mutation of CpA dinucleotides. RIP is an important feature of fungal genomes as its distribution and extent have important implications for genome evolution. Early studies of RIP did not have access to vast amounts of genome sequence information; therefore RIP was measured within one or a handful of repeat sequences using ratios of dinucleotide frequencies. However as whole-genome sequences became available for fungi, it became possible to predict the repeat content of a whole genome and calculate RIP mutation across a large number of sequences from multiple repeat families. The software tool RIPCAL was developed for this purpose and since its release has become widely used in fungal genome analysis pipelines. 2015 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42312 Springer restricted
spellingShingle Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP)
Neurospora crassa
Fungal genome analysis
RIPCAL
Repetitive DNA
Genome evolution
Hane, James
Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title_full Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title_fullStr Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title_full_unstemmed Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title_short Calculating RIP mutation in fungal genomes using RIPCAL
title_sort calculating rip mutation in fungal genomes using ripcal
topic Repeat-induced point mutation (RIP)
Neurospora crassa
Fungal genome analysis
RIPCAL
Repetitive DNA
Genome evolution
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42312