GenoFrag: Software to design primers optimized for whole genome scanning by long-range PCR amplification

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-24

  Zakour, Nouri Ben ^c   Gautier, Michel ^c   Andonov, Rumen ^a   Lavenier, Dominique ^a   Cochet, Marie Françoise ^c   Veber, Philippe ^a   Sorokin, Alexei ^b   Le Loir, Yves ^c  

^a Inst Rech Info Syst Aleatoires   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UMR1253   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1242309372     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg928     Document Type: Article

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