MAD-DPD: Designing highly degenerate primers with maximum amplification specificity

BioTechniques

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-526

  Najafabadi, Hamed Shateri ^a,b   Saberi, Amir ^b   Torabi, Noorossadat ^b,c   Chamankhah, Mahmood ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA FRAGMENT; PRIMER DNA; VH ANTIBODY; VL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MACHINE; MAXIMUM COVERAGE DEGENERATE PRIMER DESIGN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 43149106710     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112694     Document Type: Article

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