Table 1.

Comparison of different software tools for capturing repetitive biomolecular sequences

		Protein or DNA		Repeat type
Software	Method	DNA	Protein	Tandem	Degenerate	Interspersed	Periodicity	Comments
RepeatMasker	Supervised	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
CRISPRFinder	Supervised	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	CRISPR only
CRISPRDetect	Supervised	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	CRISPR only
AnnoTALE	Supervised	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	TALE only
Tandem Repeat Finder	De novo	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
RECON	De novo	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
RepeatScout	De novo	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
PRAP	De novo	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XSTREAM	De novo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
T-REKS	De novo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
SPADE	De novo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	This study