Transposons and repeats with Kaushik Panda and Keith Slotkin — the bioinformatics chat, a podcast about bioinformatics

Transposons and repeats with Kaushik Panda and Keith Slotkin (#25)

September 24, 2018

Kaushik Panda and Keith Slotkin come on the podcast to educate us about repetitive DNA and transposable elements. We talk LINEs, SINEs, LTRs, and even Sleeping Beauty transposons! Kaushik and Keith explain why repeats matter for your whole-genome analysis and answer listeners’ questions.

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Links:

Keith’s paper: The case for not masking away repetitive DNA
Questions for this episode on Reddit

Music: Eric Skiff — Come and Find Me (modified, licensed under CC BY 4.0).

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