The degenerate primer design problem

Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Linhart, Chaim ^a   Shamir, Ron ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Degenerate primers; Human olfactory subgenome; Optimization; PCR primer design; Protein families

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 1242311779     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.suppl_1.s172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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