Low complexity

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Low complexity regions (LCRs) in a protein sequence are subsequences of biased composition. Three main sources of LCRs are cryptic, tandem and interspersed repeats. [1]

Reference

  1. Alb M.,et al.Detecting cryptically simple protein sequences using the SIMPLE algorithm. Bioinformatics 2002;18:672-678.