.. _contributors:

Contributors & Background
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The who's who of TRAL.



People
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- `Maria Anisimova <https://www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/person/anis/>`_
- `Alexander Korsunsky <https://online.tugraz.at/tug_online/visitenkarte.show_vcard?pPersonenId=CB87061E95264479&pPersonenGruppe=3>`_
- `Antonio Messina <http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/people/am/>`_
- `Riccardo Murri <http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/people/rm/>`_
- `Julia Pecerska <http://www.bsse.ethz.ch/department/people/detail-person.html?persid=192596>`_
- `Elke Schaper <https://github.com/elkeschaper>`_
- `Heinz Stockinger <http://people.isb-sib.ch/Heinz.Stockinger/>`_
- `Ioannis Xenarios <http://www.isb-sib.ch/groups/lausanne/vital-it-xenarios.html#Xenarios>`_
- `Stefan Zoller <https://www.usys.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.html?persid=88844>`_
- `Spencer Bliven <https://github.com/sbliven>`_
- `Paulina Näf <https://github.com/LinaNaef>`_
- `Matteo Delucchi <https://github.com/matteodelucchi>`_

.. _publications:

Journal publications
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Delucchi, M., Näf, P., Bliven, S., & Anisimova, M. (2021). `TRAL 2.0: Tandem Repeat Detection with Circular Profile Hidden Markov Models and Evolutionary Aligner <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbinf.2021.691865>`_. *Frontiers in Bioinformatics*, DOI:  10.3389/fbinf.2021.691865

E Schaper, A Korsunsky, J Pecerska, A Messina, R Murri, H Stockinger, S Zoller, I Xenarios, and M Anisimova (2015). `TRAL: Tandem Repeat Annotation Library <http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/17/bioinformatics.btv306.abstract>`_. *Bioinformatics*. DOI:  10.1093/bioinformatics/btv306

M Anisimova, J Pecerska, E Schaper (2015). `Statistical approaches to detecting and analyzing tandem repeats in genomic sequences <http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2015.00031/full>`_. *Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology*. DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00031

E Schaper & M Anisimova (2014). `The evolution and function of protein tandem repeats in plants <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13184/full>`_. *New Phytologist*. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13184

E Schaper, O Gascuel & M Anisimova (2014). `Deep conservation of human protein tandem repeats within the eukaryotes <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13184/full>`_. *MBE*. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu062

E Schaper, AV Kajava, A Hauser & M Anisimova (2012). `Repeat or not repeat?—Statistical validation of tandem repeat prediction in genomic sequences <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13184/full>`_. *NAR*. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks726




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