RT Journal
A1 Li, Xiaoman
A1 Waterman, Michael S.
T1 Estimating the Repeat Structure and Length of DNA Sequences Using ℓ-Tuples
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2003 
FD August 01 
VO 13 
IS 8 
SP 1916 
OP 1922 
DO 10.1101/gr.1251803 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/13/8/1916.abstract 
AB In shotgun sequencing projects, the genome or BAC length is not always  known. We approach estimating genome length by first estimating the repeat  structure of the genome or BAC, sometimes of interest in its own right, on the  basis of a set of random reads from a genome project. Moreover, we can find  the consensus for repeat families before assembly. Our methods are based on  the ℓ-tuple content of the reads.