Fig. 1
From: LtrDetector: A tool-suite for detecting long terminal repeat retrotransposons de-novo
Method overview: LtrDetector is a software tool for locating long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons (RTs). a A sequence of scores reflects the distance to the closest exact copy of the k-mer starting at each nucleotide. b Smoothed scores are produced after adjacent spikes are merged into a contiguous region. c Plateau regions are identified. Separate plateaus here are represented by black and red lines. d Plateaus are paired and their boundaries are adjusted. The red triangles denote the start and end coordinates for each LTR