GENOMEMASKER package for designing unique genomic PCR primers

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Andreson, Reidar ^a   Reppo, Eric ^b   Kaplinski, Lauris ^a,c   Remm, Maido ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b BioData Ltd   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 MINUTES; EUKARYOTIC GENOME; EVALUATION PROGRAM; HUMAN GENOMES; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LARGE SEQUENCES; PCR PRIMERS; PCR PRODUCTS;

DESIGN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

GENES;

PRIMER DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

EUKARYOTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33646181602     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-172     Document Type: Article

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