Identification of Some Transposable Elements of DNA Using “BP Suche” Algorithm

Abstract

Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) is the blueprint of all living organisms. In order to draw a clear picture of genome, the researchers concentrated on DNA sequence analysis. Coding region of DNA sequence, responsible for protein synthesis, has been studied extensively in the past decade but exploration of “Non-Coding” DNA (NCDNA) part, which is formerly known as “junk DNA” is gaining interest in recent years. The mystery of human evolution is hidden inside Transposon or Transposable Element (TE), a part of NCDNA. Recently, scientists aim to shed light on Transposable Element to uncover the evolutionary history. But the identification of Transposable Elements using computational method is yet to be explored. The authors in this paper address such problem of identifying some of the transposable elements by DNA sequence analysis. “BP Suche” algorithm is used here for the analysis of Transposon database of closely related species publicly available in the NCBI website.